New court files and paperwork are raising questions about what authorities did with the information they had on Jeffrey Epstein and his ties with ex-Prince Andrew, and whether they ever started an investigation into it until Andrew’s arrest. A new report claims that the British police heard of Epstein’s alleged trafficking in the U.K. years ago.
This included allegations involving Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor. However, they reportedly still chose not to open a criminal investigation against the key figures in the scandal.
Why ex-Prince Andrew’s Epstein ties reportedly weren’t investigated sooner remains unclear
The New York Times highlighted that U.K. police may have been aware of Jeffrey Epstein and his connection with ex-Prince Andrew years before the investigation and the files touched the mainstream media, or before Andrew’s recent arrest for alleged “misconduct in public office.”
Per the outlet, London’s Metropolitan Police interviewed Virginia Giuffre three times after she accused Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell of bringing her to London in 2001. The interviews reportedly happened twice in 2015 and again in 2016. Even so, the Met decided against a full investigation, and then revisited that decision in 2019, 2021, and 2022, but again declined to proceed.
Paul G. Cassell, a lawyer who represented Giuffre, told the Times he approached Scotland Yard, claiming, “There was photographic evidence of her whereabouts in London and flight logs confirming that she had been trafficked from the U.S. into the U.K.”
In a statement that the Times cited, the Met offered a different view. They claimed that during contacts with Giuffre and other potential victims, “no allegation of criminal conduct was made against any U.K.‑based individual.” Moreover, the force said prosecutors’ advice pointed them toward international authorities.
Vera Baird, the former victims’ commissioner for England and Wales, said she raised concerns after Mountbatten-Windsor’s 2019 BBC interview, stating, “I thought it was extraordinary that the police had not investigated the presence of this girl at Ghislaine Maxwell’s house in London.”
The Met has said it will assess any new, relevant information, but the report raised several questions for the British police.
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Fonte: Leia a matéria original
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