Essex Police assessing Stansted Airport non-public flights tied to Epstein information | EUROtoday

Essex Police are assessing info relating to non-public flights departing and touchdown at Stansted airport after the discharge of the Epstein information.

Nearly 90 flights linked to paedophile Jeffrey Epstein had arrived at or left from UK airports between the early Nineties and 2018, some with British ladies onboard who say they had been abused by Epstein, in accordance with a BBC investigation in December.

Last week former prime minister Gordon Brown known as for British police to “urgently” re-examine claims ladies or ladies had been trafficked to the UK aboard these flights in an article for the New Statesman.

Mr Brown stated the lately revealed information confirmed the paedophile financier’s jet – the so-called Lolita Express – making 15 flights to or from UK airports after his 2008 conviction for soliciting prostitution from a toddler.

An Essex Police spokesperson stated: “We are assessing the information that has emerged in relation to private flights into and out of Stansted airport following the publication of the US DoJ Epstein files.”

Stansted airport stated beforehand that every one non-public plane on the airport function via unbiased operators and immigration and customs checks for passengers arriving on non-public plane are carried out straight by border power.

The BBC’s investigation in December discovered that three of the ladies who had been allegedly trafficked by Epstein had been named in his flight data out and in of the UK.

Mr Brown stated: “The emails tell us in graphic detail how Epstein was able to use Stansted airport – he boasted how cheap the airport charges were compared to Paris – to fly in girls from Latvia, Lithuania and Russia.

“Stansted was also where women were transferred from one Epstein plane to another; women arriving on private planes into Britain would not need British visas.”

The former prime minister stated the size of the trafficking would have grow to be obvious if an investigation had been performed into the flights.

“It seems the authorities never knew what was happening: evidence the BBC has uncovered shows incomplete flight logs, with unnamed passengers simply labelled as “female”.

“To this day, the names of many of the male passengers are unknown because their names were withheld. In short, British authorities had little or no idea who was being trafficked through our country, and for whom other than Epstein.”

A Stansted airport spokesperson stated: “All private aircraft at London Stansted operate through independent Fixed Base Operators, which handle all aspects of private and corporate aviation in line with regulatory requirements.

“All immigration and customs checks for passengers arriving on private aircraft are carried out directly by Border Force.

“They use entirely independent terminals not operated by London Stansted and no private jet passengers enter the main airport terminal.

“The airport does not manage or have any visibility of passenger arrangements on privately operated aircraft.”

The National Police Chiefs’ Council (NPCC) stated on Monday a bunch had been set as much as assist UK police forces which are “assessing allegations” following the publication of the Epstein information.

Thames Valley Police are reviewing new claims that Epstein despatched a lady to have a sexual encounter with Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor in 2010.

A Thames Valley Police spokesperson stated: “We are assessing the information in line with our established procedures. We take any reports of sexual crimes extremely seriously and encourage anyone with information to come forward.”

The power has additionally held discussions with specialists from the Crown Prosecution Service over allegations that Andrew shared confidential studies from his position because the UK’s commerce envoy with Epstein.

Andrew has beforehand denied any wrongdoing over his Epstein hyperlinks, however has in a roundabout way responded to the newest allegations.