The video showed the former commander-in-chief banging on the table in front of him as he denied ever being involved in child abuse. Lord Bramall told DC Gavin Sealey: “I am absolutely astonished, amazed and bemused. “I find it incredible that anybody should believe that someone of my career standing, integrity, should be capable of any of these things, including things like torture. Beech claimed Bramall had undressed him and sexually molested him, which the peer told detectives was “absolute rubbish” and “complete nonsense”. Mr Justice Goss told the jury Bramall, now 95 and in “very poor health”, would not be coming to court in person and was “unwilling to give any further evidence”.

Source: The Guardian June 17, 2019 15:49 UTC