Surveillance video from Jeffrey Epstein's first apparent suicide attempt 'no longer exists' - permanently deleted
Surveillance footage taken outside Jeffrey Epstein’s jail cell on the day of his first apparent suicide attempt has been permanently deleted, federal prosecutors say.
The sex offender was found semiconscious in his cell inside the Metropolitan Correctional Centre (MCC) in Manhattan in July, as he awaited trial over allegations of sex trafficking that threatened to see him behind bars for the rest of his life.
But, he was later taken off suicide watch, leading to a second apparent attempt in August in which he died, sparking a conspiracy theory that he was murdered, fuelled by the curious circumstances of his death.
Among those curiosities is, now, the deletion of the tape showing the coming and goings on the night of Epstein’s July suicide attempt, because MCC officials mistakenly recorded footage from a different floor of the federal facility.
The MCC "inadvertently preserved video from the wrong tier … and as a result, video from outside the defendant's cell on July 22-23, 2019 no longer exists," federal prosecutors wrote in recently filed court papers.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/jeffrey-epstein-suicide-video-deleted-tapes-jail-cell-death-a9277521.html
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