The Metropolitan Police has stated no investigation into Prince Andrew has been launched regardless of him being named in Jeffrey Epstein paperwork launched.
The Duke of York had been reported to the Metropolitan Police by the anti-monarchy marketing campaign group Republic after allegations of sexual assault had been made towards him in unsealed courtroom paperwork.
Andrew was referenced a number of occasions in recordsdata referring to disgraced paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein.
In a brief assertion immediately, Scotland Yard stated: ‘We’re conscious of the discharge of courtroom paperwork in relation to Jeffrey Epstein.
‘As with every matter, ought to new and related data be dropped at our consideration we are going to assess it. No investigation has been launched.’
Requires the duke to be investigated had been made by a US legal professional who represented a few of Epstein’s victims, who stated police in Britain have an obligation to research Andrew as he ‘nonetheless refuses to completely account for his time’ with the paedophile.
The unredacted paperwork, which had been launched on Wednesday in america, included allegations Andrew had an orgy with underage women and touched a girl’s breast whereas posing with a puppet of himself.
The 63-year-old prince, who has beforehand strenuously denied the allegations, paid tens of millions a 12 months in the past to settle a civil case out of courtroom with Virginia Giuffre with no act of contrition after she accused him of sexually assaulting her when she was 17.
However he’s talked about greater than 70 occasions in practically 1,000 pages of interviews and transcripts launched within the US in reference to a 2015 defamation case introduced by Virginia Giuffre towards Ghislaine Maxwell, who was jailed for intercourse trafficking younger women for Epstein.
The names of greater than 170 individuals who had been both associates, buddies or victims of Epstein are being made public following a decide’s order final month, together with high-profile figures akin to former US president Invoice Clinton.