Police within the U.K. say they’re investigating two allegations of decades-old child sex abuse after looking into potential crimes revealed in documents from the U.S. Justice Department’s investigation into the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
Police in Surrey, the county immediately southwest of London, said in a press release Tuesday that they’re investigating two separate allegations. One pertains to locations in Surrey and Berkshire from the mid-Nineties to 2000. The opposite pertains to the mid- to late Eighties in West Surrey.
No arrests have been made.
“We take all reports of sexual offending seriously and can work to discover any reasonable lines of enquiry to confirm information or establish corroborating evidence,’’ police said in a press release.
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Surrey is amongst several U.K. police forces which have worked together to evaluate potential crimes revealed in documents linked to the late financier and sex offender.
The National Police Chiefs’ Council, which brings together police leaders from across the U.K., said in February that it had arrange a national coordination group to support forces looking into issues arising from the greater than 3 million pages of documents released earlier this yr.
While the council didn’t specify the police forces involved in the trouble, at the least eight have said they’re “assessing” information within the files. They’re looking into issues starting from concerns that Epstein’s private jet can have been utilized in sex trafficking to allegations that the previous Prince Andrew sent confidential reports to the financier when he was Britain’s international trade envoy.
The Epstein scandal has rocked the royal family and British politics in recent months due to his links to Peter Mandelson, the U.K.’s former ambassador to Washington, and to the previous prince, now generally known as Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor.
King Charles III in October stripped his younger brother of his royal titles, including the appropriate to be called a prince, in an effort to insulate the royal family from the continuing revelations about his friendship with Epstein.
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