How the Met's former commissioner is living lavish life of retirement despite Carl Beech blunders

Aug 2, 2019 10:00 pm Cyber Security 257

Commissioner cash-in: He oversaw the Met's catastrophic sex abuse probe that ruined the lives of VIPs. And the price of failure? A £16m pension pot, two luxury homes and SEVEN private sector jobs

Former head of Met Bernard Hogan-Howe retired from force in 2017 aged just 61

He was entitled to taxpayer-funded pension with pot worth reported £6million

That's despite string of blunders in probe into VIP paedophile ring allegations

£2.5m of public money wasted, and lives of innocent men and families ruined

Fantasist Carl Beech accused high-profile men of being murderous paedophiles

By Guy Adams for the Daily Mail

Published: 17:40 EDT, 2 August 2019 | Updated: 17:40 EDT, 2 August 2019

Hogan-Howe, 61, oversaw the Met's catastrophic sex abuse probe that ruined the lives of VIPs

Cynics say that in public life, nothing succeeds quite like failure.

Indeed, in the week when the biggest debacle in the history of modern policing was condemned by a retired High Court judge, its architect, the former head of the Met, could be found enjoying his six-figure pension at his converted barn.

With stunning views of Dorset’s Jurassic Coast, the home was bought for about £1million in cash when Lord (Bernard) Hogan-Howe retired in 2017.

It has been re-modelled, with walled gardens containing, among other things, a wood-fired pizza oven and sits up a long bridleway where he and his wife ride horses which they keep at nearby stables.

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