A review has uncovered that nearly 90 flights connected to the late financier Jeffrey Epstein are said to have arrived at and departed from UK airfields, with some reportedly having onboard women from the UK who assert they were abused by the found guilty sex offender.
The flight logs were part of a trove of legal papers and files made public by the estate of Jeffrey Epstein that have been released over the previous twelve months. The analysis identified 87 flights tied to Epstein – encompassing many that were previously unknown – coming into or leaving from UK airports between the start of the 1990s and 2018.
Unnamed women were recorded among the passengers flying to and from the UK. Crucially, 15 of these British airport journeys took place after Epstein’s 2008 guilty verdict for soliciting sex from a underage person.
“This is ‘appalling’ that there had never been a ‘full-scale UK investigation’ into his operations in the country,” said American attorneys acting for hundreds of Epstein survivors.
Testimony from one of the UK-based survivors aided the conviction of Epstein’s associate socialite Ghislaine Maxwell of child sex-trafficking in the US in 2021. Yet, that victim has not been approached by police in the UK, as stated by her attorney based in Florida.
In a response, the the Met said they had “not been provided with any additional information that would support reopening the investigation.” They noted, “If fresh and pertinent evidence be brought to our attention, encompassing any resulting from the release of documents in the US, we will assess it.”
Proposed legislation to disclose every document held by the American government in relation to Epstein passed the House and Senate last month. The Department of Justice has until 19 December to comply. Hundreds of thousands of files are expected to be released.
Additionally, a US judge ordered last week that the DOJ could disclose investigative materials from a sex-trafficking case against Maxwell, Epstein’s long-term associate, who is currently serving a 20-year prison sentence over the charges.