Tory Party MP (Billericay) Harvey Proctor – Stood trial for sex offences of a sado-masochistic nature against teenage boys.

Harvey Proctor, a Conservative MP from 1979 to 1983, broke down as he told jurors of seeing his own face staring out of the television in a news report the morning after police investigating the allegations raided his home.

The former politician faced defendant Carl Beech at Newcastle Crown Court and described accusations that he was a killer and sadistic sexual abuser as "wrong, malicious, false, horrendous", and the product of a "polluted imagination".

Beech, 51, from Gloucester, himself a convicted paedophile and voyeur, denies 12 counts of perverting the course of justice and one of fraud stemming from accusations he fabricated the claims against Mr Proctor and others.

Proctor told the court "There was no Westminster paedophile ring." He also poured scorn on what he called the "extraordinary" step previously taken by police of describing Beech's allegations as "credible and true".

Jurors had previously been shown video of a police interview in which the defendant told detectives he saw Mr Proctor rape and murder a boy by stabbing him in the arm and choking him in 1980.

Beech, a father of one, also claimed Mr Proctor was involved in the murder of another unknown child in a London townhouse.

Asked by Tony Badenoch QC, prosecuting, to respond to the allegation that he strangled a child, Mr Proctor said "The allegation is false. It emanates from a polluted imagination. The allegations are horrendous, dreadful."

"I had nothing to do with them. I don’t believe they took place."

Questioned over the townhouse murder allegation, Mr Proctor said "Not true, I had nothing to do with that, I do not believe that took place, these are more ravings of a fantasist."

The Tory MP was convicted and fined a total of £1,450, and was forced to resign.

The former Conservative MP Harvey Proctor has agreed a settlement with the Metropolitan police after being subject to false accusations of child abuse and murder, with reports putting the figure he is due to receive at £900,000.

Proctor, whose home was raided as part of the disastrous Operation Midland investigation after fictitious claims made by Carl Beech, is to receive £500,000 in compensation from the Met plus nearly £400,000 towards his legal costs, according to the Daily Mail.