The Westminster paedophile ring accuser gave "utterly incredible" evidence to officers about how he was abused vast distances away from his childhood homes, prosecutors said.

Jurors heard how Carl Beech, who denies 12 counts of perverting the course of justice and one of fraud, lived in Bicester from 1976 to 1977, when he would have been a young boy, and moved to Kingston in 1978 at around the age of 10.

Newcastle Crown Court heard that Beech said it was during these years that he was abused in a number of locations, including the Imber training groups and Larkhill Barracks, both in Wiltshire, which, jurors were told, would have been considerable distances away from where he was then living.

Prosecutors also said that a number of the locations that Beech put forward as being sites of abuse were in central London, and would have been challenging for a young boy to access.

Tony Badenoch QC, prosecuting, said: "It is utterly incredible, and it's also untrue."

Beech attended the Coombe Hill Primary School, Rivermead Secondary School and The Tudor School during his childhood.

Prosecutors said that, despite his claims that he was taken out of school on a weekly basis to be "sadistically abused", he was given an award for 100% punctuality at The Tudor School in the spring term of 1984.

At the age of 20, in 1988, he moved towards the healthcare sector, attending a nursing college and working for Gloucestershire hospitals.

Jurors heard that it was around this time that he met his wife of more than 20 years, Dawn.

Prosecutors explained how, despite Beech's later allegations, she never heard "a word" of the accusations prior to the defendant approaching the Metropolitan Police. The couple separated when he was 44.

Beech was working as an inspector at the Care Quality Commission around the time he made the allegations, jurors heard, earning an annual salary "in excess of £45,000".

Newcastle Crown Court heard how in the early months of last year, after Northumbria Police had questioned him, Beech moved to Sweden, growing a beard as a "rudimentary disguise".

But, despite his attempts to start a new life there, Beech was arrested on a train in Gothenburg, jurors were told.