Carl Beech 'was given credibility because he was middle class'

Carl Beech at an extradition hearing in Gothenburg, Sweden, in October 2018. Photograph: Julia Reinhart/Getty ImagesThe journalist who led Exaro’s reporting about Carl Beech’s false claims has admitted to repeated doubts about his key source and said he was taken in by Beech’s middle-class credentials.Mark Conrad wrote the stories over two years, alleging a powerful group of men from the British establishment had raped and murdered children between 1975 and 1984.Conrad said Bee