Police update as cops press US for unredacted Epstein files on Andrew | Royal | News
It was revealed that Metropolitan Police Service Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley said that police forces were pressuring American officials to access the Epstein files. The US Department of Justice has been slowly releasing files on the life of late pedophile Jeffrey Epstein over the past few months; Many of these files contain the names of famous people.
Although parts of some of the documents have been redacted, Sir Mark Rowley said officers in the UK were seeking access to the unredacted material and were also reviewing “a range of proposed sexual allegations” to determine whether any “deserves criminal investigation”. Rowley said UK police needed “unredacted evidence” and the “original copy” to conduct an investigation here.
They were released under investigation and denied wrongdoing.
Speaking about the Epstein Files on US TV, Rowley said: “Of course, there’s a lot of this evidence… it’s in all these files in the United States and at some stage we’re going to need the unredacted evidence. We need the original copy and where it came from and that’s going to be required if we get to the trial stage.”
Rowley also said police were still reviewing documents Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor may have shared with Epstein while he was British trade envoy.
He later said that sexual allegations would be investigated if there was evidence, as did the late Virginia Giuffre.
The Mirror reportedSir Mark told ABC News: “We had four of these interviews with Virginia Guiffre… and those interviews did not provide us with any allegations or evidence of sexual offenses or human trafficking that we could investigate in the UK. So that investigation did not progress.”
“All of these investigations go wherever the evidence takes them; they are very comfortable investigating famous or powerful people.
“I think it’s really important for the police force to do that, to act without fear or favour. The law applies equally to everyone, and these cases will go wherever the evidence, for example, takes us.”
