The Metropolitan Police London (Met, or Scotland Yard) ruled out this Friday investigating the allegations against the prince andrew included in court documents released in USAdespite receiving a complaint yesterday from the British anti-monarchy organization Republic.
“We are aware of the disclosure of court documents related to Jeffrey Epstein“said a police spokesman, alluding to the American financier known to Andrés and accused of trafficking and sexual abuse of minorswho committed suicide in prison in 2019 before being tried.
“As with any matter, if we are presented with new and relevant information, we will evaluate it“said the source, who confirmed that, as things stand, “no investigation has been started”.
The documents declassified on Wednesday and Thursday by a court in NY They are part of a defamation lawsuit filed in 2015 by Virginia Giuffreone of Epstein’s main accusers, against his ex-lover and partner, the British heiress Ghislaine Maxwellcurrently sentenced to 20 years in prison for helping her sexually abuse minors.
The files detail Epstein’s ties, some already known, to prominent figures, including the former US president. Bill Clinton and Andrew, second son of the queen Isabel IIwith whom Giuffre reached a million-dollar agreement in 2022 not to take her complaint for sexual crimes when she was a minor to trial.
Republicdirected by Graham Smithregretted this Friday the decision of the Met, of which he said that on other occasions it has investigated similar accusations against other celebrities.
“The Metropolitan Police must open an investigation. Otherwise, how can victims have confidence in the justice system as a whole and how can citizens have confidence in the rule of law?“, he indicated in a statement.
“Inaction would exacerbate an already serious problem in which victims of sexist violence are unwilling to report crimes.” and “would embolden offenders knowing that the Police will not take action against the powerful”, adds the note.
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For his part, the British Prime Minister, Rishi Sunakdeclined “comment on police matters”, while the Labor leader and former State Attorney, Keir Starmerpointed out that, when there is a complaint, “it is inevitable that it be examined”.
“We have to start with the victims and examine the accusations that have been made“, he declared, adding that “Whoever it is, when there are credible accusations, of course they must be examined”.
He prince andrewwho denies Giuffre’s accusations that he abused her three times at the age of 17, retired from public life in 2020, after his connection to Epstein became known, and his mother, Elizabeth II, stripped him of his military honors in January of 2022.
