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Hundreds of files show the paedophile financier booked flights for young women from or through the United Kingdom up until June 2019, just weeks before his arrest...
Jeffrey Epstein was trafficking women through British airports until late 2019, just a month before his arrest, the documents show. Analysis by The Times of booking records, fuel receipts and flight logs uncovered in Epstein's files shows the paedophile financier flew in and out of Britain by private jet more than 60 times.
He also booked commercial flights for young women to or from the UK up until June 2019, just a month before his arrest. Six police forces are investigating whether victims were trafficked on Epstein's private jet to commercial UK airports, as well as RAF (Royal Air Force) bases, including Northolt, a sector station in Ruislip, west London, which played a key defensive role during the Battle of Britain in World War II.
Former Prime Minister Gordon Brown has asked six police forces, including the Metropolitan Police, to investigate whether Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor used RAF bases to make trips that may have been linked to Epstein.
New documents show Epstein's plane landed at RAF Northolt until 2015. Andrew has always denied any wrongdoing. Brown has passed a dossier of evidence, relating to flights in and out of the UK, to six police forces covering all the airports where the flights may have landed.
Former Crown Prosecutor Nazir Afzal said the findings were “scandalous”. He said: “Time and again, when the police have been asked to investigate Epstein in relation to sexual abuse and trafficking, we have been told that a prior review did not find it necessary. How is it then possible for media outlets like The Times and others to uncover significant incriminating evidence when a police review found no need to find it?”
Afzal, who prosecuted sexual harassment gangs in Northern England, added: "This week we have seen how when the state is the alleged victim it can move at a rapid pace. Whereas when the alleged victims are women it finds an excuse not to move at all."
Epstein's associates arranged flights from Heathrow to New York for a Russian woman, whose name has been redacted, just a month before his arrest on July 6, 2019. The woman traveled on June 1 and returned on June 9.
Epstein’s assistant, Lesley Groff, made a strange request to an Amex employee, asking him to add an unbooked hotel to an itinerary. When he replied that it might be too late to book and cancel a hotel, Groff asked, “Can you just write a hotel on an itinerary?”
The employee found a hotel with cancellations within the day, to which Groff replied: “Just
add it to the itinerary. I’ll cancel it tomorrow morning.” In 2016, Groff asked the same employee to book a “fake flight” for a woman traveling to Miami. She wrote: “There is no refund on this flight…This is a fake flight…She won’t actually be traveling…but she needs to show an itinerary for this flight…can you set something up for me?” A flight from Rome to a London airport was suggested, to which Groff replied: “Let me see if the fake ticket can show London.”
Groff's lawyers have previously said their client "never witnessed anything inappropriate or illegal." New records obtained by The Times also reveal that Epstein's private jet landed at RAF Northolt in 2015, two years later than previously known.
A fuel receipt for a Gulfstream jet used by Epstein records the plane being refuelled at the RAF base on May 8, 2015. Flights to Northolt had previously only been recorded in 2013.
Before his imprisonment in 2008, Epstein made dozens of trips in and out of UK airports on his private Boeing 727 jet. The trips, most of which were to or from Luton, continued after his release from prison in 2009 at a lower frequency.
In December 2000, Epstein flew to Luton from Paris with Ghislaine Maxwell, Maxwell's assistant, and another woman. The next day, they picked up Tom Pritzker, the American businessman, and a passenger referred to only as "a female" in the flight logs, and flew to RAF Marham, from where they are believed to have gone to the royal estate of Sandringham.
Pritzker has not been charged with any wrongdoing. In a statement earlier this month, he said he regretted his association with Epstein. After The Telegraph asked Epstein’s representatives in 2011 about the possibility that Andrew had helped arrange the landing, Epstein asked his pilot, Larry Visoski, and then sent an email to Maxwell saying: “I spoke to Larry, it’s true.”
After the stop at Sandringham, the plane moved to Norwich and two days later they flew back to the US, stopping in Gander, Canada, most likely to refuel.
In December 2012, his plane underwent extensive repairs at Stansted and, once it was able to fly again, Epstein used it to bring a young Russian woman, whose name has been redacted, to the US. In communication with aviation specialists, he sought advice on whether the woman could enter the UK on her Russian passport in order to fly to the US.
Separate documents show that he chartered a Cessna Citation to fly him and his wife from Paris to Stansted, and then the two boarded his plane to return to the US.
There are ten separate police forces assessing the allegations relating to Epstein, which include a number of allegations that he transported exploited girls through the UK.
Brown wrote to six police forces highlighting his concerns about suspected trafficking through airports and RAF bases. They were the Metropolitan Police, Surrey, Sussex, Thames Valley, Norfolk and Bedfordshire police.
Between them, they cover Heathrow, Gatwick, Luton, RAF Marham and RAF Horsham St Faith. When Andrew lost his job as UK trade envoy on July 21, 2011, Epstein blamed Charles for the former prince's removal from the role.
Epstein wrote in an email: “I assume he knows this is Charles’s work.” The email was in response to a message from an associate, who said: “Lots of TV coverage on PA and always great coverage of you. Crazy.”
It is believed that the PA is a reference to Andrew (Prince Andrew). While serving as the UK's trade envoy between 2001 and 2011, Andrew had access to senior government and business contacts around the world. Andrew stepped down from the role after his relationship with Epstein came under increasing scrutiny.
Epstein's email, in which he criticized Charles, is just one of many in which he discussed the former Prince's loss of his job as the UK's trade envoy.
In another email, Epstein wrote: “I’m sure this is good for him, he’ll be free now…”. Similarly, an article was sent to Maxwell regarding Andrew’s resignation. Her response was the question “Why?”, to which Epstein replied: “I think he’ll make money…”./ Pamphlet from the “Sunday Times”
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