Detectives have urged Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor’s former shut safety officers to “consider carefully whether anything they saw or heard” is related to their investigation into paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein and his associates.
The Metropolitan Police mentioned it was additionally working with counterparts within the US to ascertain whether or not London airports had been used to “facilitate human trafficking and sexual exploitation”.
On Friday, the power mentioned no new experiences of alleged sexual offences have been made for the reason that launch of hundreds of thousands of pages of paperwork associated to Epstein by the US Department of Justice.
The Met’s phrases comply with Andrew’s arrest on Thursday on suspicion of misconduct in public workplace, which noticed him held in custody for 11 hours earlier than being launched beneath investigation.
The power beforehand mentioned it was trying into allegations Andrew’s safety officers turned a “blind eye” to his visits to Epstein’s island, Little St James.
Police are but to establish any wrongdoing by shut safety officers.
Andrew’s main accuser, Virginia Giuffre, alleged she had intercourse with him throughout an orgy with “underage” women on the Caribbean island.
The former prince has beforehand vehemently denied all allegations made towards him.
Andrew, who’s the primary senior royal in fashionable historical past to be arrested, was held for round 11 hours on his 66th birthday earlier than he was launched beneath investigation by Thames Valley Police.
It is known the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) are but to supply any “early investigative advice” to the power.
On Friday, a helicopter circled Royal Lodge in Windsor with unmarked vans, believed to be police autos, getting into the grounds all through the morning.
A police presence remained on the Sandringham Estate however searches of Andrew’s Norfolk residence concluded on Thursday.
The arrest of the King’s youthful brother made headlines the world over, together with an image of him trying drained and exhausted, slouched at the back of a car leaving Aylsham police station.
Both the King and Queen, who carried on their duties as regular after the information, didn’t reply questions posed to them about Andrew throughout engagements in London on Thursday.
US President Donald Trump described the information as “very sad” and “so bad for the royal family”.
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