Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police Service Sir Mark Rowley has said that police forces are pressing the American authorities for access to Epstein files, it has been revealed. The US Department of Justice have been slowly releasing files regarding the late convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein’s life over the last few months, with many of these files containing the names of famous individuals.
While some documents have had parts redacted, Sir Mark Rowley said that officers in the UK want access to unredacted material, and are also reviewing “a whole range of suggested sexual allegations” to determine whether any “merit a criminal investigation”. Rowley said the police in the UK “need the unredacted evidence” and “original copy” to pursue investigations here.
They have been released under investigation and have denied wrongdoing.
Speaking on US TV about the Epstein Files, Rowley said: “Of course, there’s a big body of that evidence … in the United States in all those files and at some stage we’re going to need the unredacted evidence. We need the original copy, and where it came from, and that’s going to be necessary if we get to the stage of court cases.”
Rowley also said that police are still reviewing documents that Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor may have shared with Epstein when he was a British trade envoy.
He then said that any sexual allegations, such as those made by the late Virginia Giuffree, will also be investigated if there is evidence.
As reported by The Mirror, Sir Mark told ABC News: “With Virginia Guiffre, we did four of those interviews with her … and those interviews didn’t give us any evidence or any allegations of sexual offending or trafficking that we could investigate in the UK. That’s why that investigation didn’t go forward.
“Those investigations all go wherever the evidence takes them, quite comfortable with investigating sort of famous or powerful people.
“I think it’s really important for policing to do that, that sense of operating without fear or favour. The law applies equally to everyone, and those cases will go, say, wherever the evidence leads us to.”
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