A review has uncovered that approximately 90 flights connected to the late financier Jeffrey Epstein allegedly arrived at and departed from UK airfields, with some reportedly having onboard women from the UK who assert they were victimized by the convicted sex offender.
The travel manifests were part of a trove of court documents and files released by the estate of Jeffrey Epstein that have been released over the previous twelve months. The review uncovered 87 flights linked to Epstein – featuring many that were previously unknown – coming into or leaving from UK airports between the early 1990s and 2018.
Unidentified “females” were documented among the travelers flying to and from the UK. Significantly, 15 of these British airport journeys occurred subsequent to Epstein’s 2008 guilty verdict for soliciting sex from a child.
“This is ‘astonishing’ that there had never been a ‘full-scale UK investigation’ into his operations in the country,” remarked American attorneys representing hundreds of Epstein victims.
A statement from one of the British victims was instrumental in convicting Epstein’s accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell of child sex-trafficking in the US in 2021. Yet, that survivor has not been approached by police in the UK, according to her attorney based in Florida.
In a response, the London's Metropolitan Police said they had “not received any further evidence that would support reopening the investigation.” They noted, “Should fresh and pertinent evidence be brought to our attention, including any resulting from the release of documents in the US, we will evaluate it.”
A bill to make public every document held by the American government in relation to Epstein was approved by the House and Senate last month. The Department of Justice has until 19 December to comply. Hundreds of thousands of documents are anticipated to be made public.
In a related development, a federal judge decided last week that the department could make public case files from a sex-trafficking case against Maxwell, Epstein’s long-term associate, who is serving a 20-year prison sentence over the charges.
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