Close to Ninety Air Travels Linked to Jeffrey Epstein Reportedly Arrived at or Departed from UK Airports
A review has identified that approximately 90 aircraft journeys linked to the late financier Jeffrey Epstein are said to have arrived at and departed from UK airfields, with some reportedly transporting women from the UK who assert they were victimized by the found guilty child sex offender.
Aviation Records Show Trail of Travel
The travel manifests were part of thousands of court documents and files made public by Epstein’s estate that have been made public over the last year. The analysis found 87 flights linked to Epstein – encompassing many that were not previously known – arriving or departing from UK airports between the start of the 1990s and 2018.
Passenger Details and After Guilty Verdict Travel
Unnamed “females” were listed among the passengers flying to and from the UK. Notably, 15 of these flights involving the UK took place subsequent to Epstein’s 2008 guilty verdict for soliciting sex from a underage person.
“This is ‘astonishing’ that there had never been a ‘comprehensive British inquiry’ into his operations in the country,” said American attorneys representing hundreds of Epstein victims.
British Victims and Legal Proceedings
Evidence from one of the UK-based survivors was instrumental in convicting Epstein’s accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell of child sex-trafficking in the US in 2021. But, that survivor has not received any contact by UK authorities, according to her Florida-based lawyer.
In a response, the London's Metropolitan Police stated they had “not received any new information that would support reopening the probe.” They added, “Should fresh and pertinent information be presented to us, encompassing any resulting from the release of documents in the US, we will evaluate it.”
Ongoing Document Release and Judicial Decisions
A bill to release all files held by the American government in relation to Epstein passed the US Congress last month. The US justice department has until 19 December to comply. Hundreds of thousands of papers are projected to be made public.
Additionally, a US judge ordered last week that the department could disclose case files from a sex-trafficking case against Maxwell, Epstein’s long-term associate, who is serving a 20-year jail term over the charges.
