Gordon Brown has called for a police inquiry into sex trafficking by Jeffrey Epstein through UK airports in a bombshell intervention.
The former PM demanded a full investigation into evidence that dozens of flights paid for by the paedophile had trafficked women on board. These including the private jet flight that brought Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor’s accuser Virginia Giuffre to the UK in 2001.
Mr Brown said police must interview the disgraced royal. Ms Giuffre alleged she was forced to have sex with the then-Prince, which he strenuously denies. The former Prime Minister’s call comes after a harrowing BBC investigation found nearly 90 flights linked to the paedophile financier had arrived at and departed from UK airports.
(
PA Wire)
Some had British women who say they were abused appearing in flight records. The records include 15 flights after Epstein’s conviction for soliciting sex from a child in 2008.
Mr Brown wrote in The New Statesman: “In the past week, I have delved deep into the Epstein files to discover the extent of (Peter) Mandelson and Epstein’s betrayal of Britain during the global financial crisis.
“What I discovered about the abuse of women by male predators and their enablers – and Britain’s as yet unacknowledged role – has shocked me to the core. It demands an in-depth police investigation, and is by far the biggest scandal of all.”
The former Prime Minister said he was shocked to read emails including graphic details of Epstein boasting he could use Stansted Airport to fly in girls from Latvia, Lithuania and Russia. He wrote that visas were issues and payments made to transport girls on the billionaire’s so-called “Lolita Express”.
Mr Brown wrote: “The Stansted revelations alone require them to interview Andrew.” If an investigation is launched, it is extremely unlikely that Mountbatten-Windsor would not be questioned.
US District Court – Southern Dis)
Ms Giuffre, who tragically took her own life last year, was transported to London after the flight landed at Luton Airport. She was just 17 at the time.
The flight logs were among thousands of court documents and papers released in the past year. Many are incomplete – with some passengers listed simply as “female” while the names of males onboard were withheld.
Lawyers representing Epstein’s victims in the US said it was shocking that a full-scale UK investigation had not been launched. The BBC found that one British woman, named as Kate, was on board more than 10 flights paid for by Epstein between 1999 and 2006.
Her testminony helped to convict British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein’s accomplice. But despite this, her legal team said she has not been contacted by British police.
Flight logs analysed by the broadcaster found over 50 flights involved his private jets – mostly flying to and from Luton Airport. There were also several flights at Birmingham International Airport.
On top of this there was one arrival and departure at RAF Marham in west Norfolk and at Edinburgh Airport. And the BBC said flight records also reveal commercial and chartered flights taken or by paid for by Epstein show dozens more journeys through London Heathrow, Stansted and Gatwick.