The NCA advised us it doesn’t routinely touch upon “the exchange of information with international partners”.
A Met Police spokesperson stated it was “fully engaged” alongside different forces in the National Police Chiefs’ Council group established following the discharge of the Epstein recordsdata.
This contains an “assessment of information which indicates that London airports may have been used as transit points in the facilitation of sexual exploitation and human trafficking” which is “ongoing”, the Met stated.
The Met didn’t reply on to our findings from the recordsdata in regards to the London flats and Eurostar tickets.
Lisa Phillips, an Epstein survivor, advised BBC Newsnight final week that “a lot of women came forward in the UK whether through their attorney, or through the Metropolitan Police, or their local police station” and is looking for a public inquiry as a result of “we can find out what went wrong and how to prevent it in the future”.
Tessa Gregory, the human rights lawyer, stated the state wanted to be held accountable and a statutory public inquiry would have the ability to compel witnesses and have a look at these points in element.
“Where the allegations span so many years and involve public figures and institutions, there are probably wider questions that the state also needs to address, such as how did this go undetected for so long?” she stated.
In January, the BBC additionally reported that another woman was alleging that she had been sent to the UK by Epstein for intercourse with Mountbatten-Windsor.
After the Epstein recordsdata had been launched in January, a number of police forces throughout the UK, together with the Met, confirmed they had been both making enquiries or assessing info earlier than deciding whether or not to open an investigation.
But Hyland, the previous anti-slavery commissioner, stated: “I don’t know what that is. You’re either investigating it or you’re not.”
He stated with the grievance of trafficking and the main points of London properties there was “more than enough to start an investigation”.
