Abuse scandal: Andrew and the Epstein affair – police examine non-public flights by way of London airport | EUROtoday

In the affair surrounding convicted US intercourse offender Jeffrey Epstein, British police are investigating proof of ladies being smuggled into Great Britain on non-public planes. Essex police stated on Tuesday they had been reviewing info “that emerged following the release of the US Department of Justice’s Epstein files relating to private flights to and from Stansted Airport”. The police didn’t point out the previous Prince Andrew, who’s below large stress within the affair.

The BBC had already reported in December that just about 90 of Epstein’s non-public planes had taken off or landed at British airports through the years. British victims of abuse by the US monetary advisor had been additionally on board among the machines. Former Prime Minister Gordon Brown then referred to as for an investigation by the British police – together with into the potential involvement of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, a brother of King Charles III.

He was “privately told” that the investigation “in connection with the former Prince Andrew had not properly checked important information about flights,” Brown wrote in an article within the New Statesman journal final week. He subsequently requested the police to “check this as part of the new investigation”. Apparently the British authorities have thus far had “little or no idea who was being trafficked through our country and for whom other than Epstein.”

“They need to question Andrew just because of the Stansted revelations,” Brown demanded.

King Charles III had already stripped his brother of all titles and honors on the finish of final 12 months due to the Epstein scandal, after the memoirs of Epstein sufferer Virginia Giuffre had been revealed posthumously after her suicide. In it, Giuffre renewed her accusation intimately that the then Prince Andrew had intercourse along with her when she was solely 17. In recordsdata on the Epstein case revealed by the US Department of Justice on the finish of January, one other abuse sufferer additionally alleged that Epstein had despatched him to Great Britain in 2010 to have intercourse with Andrew.

Epstein, who was related to the best ranges of politics and enterprise, is claimed to have abused greater than a thousand underage ladies and younger ladies. In some instances he’s stated to have handed the victims on to celebrities. He was first convicted of molesting a minor in 2008. Because of a controversial cope with the general public prosecutor, he solely acquired an 18-month jail sentence.

After being arrested once more on suspicion of sexual abuse of minors, Epstein was discovered hanging in his New York jail cell in August 2019. According to official info, he took his personal life. The celebrities talked about within the Epstein recordsdata largely declare to have recognized nothing concerning the extent of Epstein’s prison actions.