Carl Beech

I watched it too, MawB2 and totally agree.

He was claiming all those injuries - broken bones etc - and yet there were no medical check-ups by police which would have immediately shown him to be a liar..... and saved £2 million plus in investigation costs, let alone the terrible effects on the wrongly accused people.

I missed the beginning of this, but just looking at his body language in the police interviews screamed at me that this was someone who had lied through his teeth and had now been caught out.

The damage he has done is immense, not only to the people he accused but also whether genuine victims will now hesitate to come forward.

I found the programme disappointing. I had hoped to find out something about Beech’s motivation for his allegations, but it was more of a description of the events of the case, which stretched out for an hour and a half.

I have recorded it but not yet seen it. From reading about it in the papers at the time he managed to ruin the reputations of several well known people and the police seemed to have checked nothing and just believed him.