//I find it incredibly concerning that it flies in the face of presumed innocence until proven otherwise.//
With cases such as this one (and many others) the police and CPS seem recently to have turned justice on its head. They assume that people such as this creature are telling the truth when anybody with half a brain could have seen that he was a liar and a fantasist and, more than that, waas almost certainly driven by the thought of large amounts of "compo" that might come his way. The Met police stated, without ny foundation whatsoever, that his allegations were "credible and true". Just how they could have arrived at that conclusion is anybody's guess and I would have thought, particularly in view of the people accused by Beech, that a few enquiries would have been made before that statement was issued. In fact, it should not have been made at all lest it jeopardised any court cases that might follow. There is a well known principle among police detectives: "A", "B", "C". Assume nothing; Believe nobody; Check everything. It seems the detectives involved in this case did not learn their alphabet.