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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Vikram Dodd and Nadeem Badshah

Police investigating claims that Epstein trafficked women through UK airports

Jeffrey Epstein
Gordon Brown said the published files show Epstein’s private jet made 90 flights to or from the UK. Photograph: Sipa Press/Rex

British police have expanded their interest in the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s links to Britain, by admitting for the first time they are looking at claims he used dozens of private flights into UK airports to traffic women.

It comes after former prime minister Gordon Brown said that documents about Epstein released in the US showed in “graphic detail” how the disgraced financier, with links to high-profile people including the former Prince Andrew, was able to use Stansted airport in Essex to “fly in girls from Latvia, Lithuania and Russia”.

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