Jeffrey Epstein housed female victims in London for years after British police decided not to investigate the disgraced paedophile financier. He had rented four flats in Kensington and Chelsea where many of his victims, including foreign nationals, had been staying after the Met decided not to investigate Virginia Giuffre’s allegation in 2015 that she had been trafficked. Some of these victims, six of whom have since come forward, were coerced by Epstein to recruit others into his sex trafficking operation – and were regularly moved between London and Paris via the Eurostar to see him, according to the BBC.
The corporation has reviewed millions of pages from the so-called ‘Epstein Files’ released by the US Department of Justice. Their investigation has revealed that the paedophile’s sex trafficking scheme ‘grew more extensive than was previously known’, including housing and the international transportation of his victims – right up to his death. At the time these crimes are alleged to have taken place, the Met said it had followed ‘reasonable lines of inquiry’. However, the BBC reports that British police ‘missed opportunities’ to investigate Epstein in addition to the allegations Guiffre had made against Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, who has always denied wrongdoing.
