Revealed: how Carl Beech, the serial child abuse accuser, became the accused

The extraordinary story of how the man who said he was the victim of a VIP paedophile ring ended up on the run in Sweden

• Carl Beech made up VIP paedophile ring claims, jury finds

On a snowy bank overlooking an ice-covered river in the tiny, remote northern Swedish hamlet of Mjilan stands a small burgundy cabin. It would be unremarkable, were it not for one fact.

For six months last year it housed the man who triggered an ill-fated multimillion-pound police inquiry thousands of miles away in Britain that sent shockwaves through the heart of the political establishment.