Anonymous ID: 3d0341 June 16, 2021, 2:29 a.m. No.13915262   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5309 >>5768

Britain's Metropolitan Police to 'review' UK allegations against Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell

 

London (CNN)Britain's Metropolitan Police has confirmed it will "review" allegations against Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell brought to light in a new investigation by London-based Channel 4 News.

Channel 4 News said its investigation, released on Tuesday, found "more than half a dozen claims that young women and girls are alleged to have been targeted, trafficked, groomed, or abused in the UK" by Epstein and Maxwell, "over a period spanning more than a decade."

The report said the alleged offenses include sexual assault and rape.

 

Epstein, a multi-millionaire and convicted pedophile who was charged by US federal prosecutors of sex trafficking, died in a New York jail cell in 2019 while awaiting trial. Medical examiners said the cause of the 66-year-old's death was suicide by hanging.

 

Maxwell, a British socialite and former associate of Epstein's could see trial in New York in the fall. Federal prosecutors say she recruited and groomed a 14-year-old girl to engage in sex acts with Epstein from 2001 to 2004.

 

She had also been previously charged by federal prosecutors with conspiracy and enticing minors to travel to engage in illegal sex acts, and the transportation of minors to engage in criminal sexual activity for allegedly grooming and recruiting underage girls from 1994 through 1997.

She has pleaded not guilty to sex trafficking and the other charges.

 

The Channel 4 News report noted "serious questions" have been raised about why the Metropolitan Police failed to carry out a full criminal investigation into Epstein and Maxwell.

The Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) said in a statement Tuesday that it "always takes allegations of sexual offenses and exploitation seriously."

"We will always consider any new information and will review the information sent to us from Channel 4," the statement added.

 

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https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/16/europe/met-police-epstein-maxwell-intl-hnk/index.html