- Defence Secretary John Healey has ordered a review of over two decades of Ministry of Defence records to investigate if Jeffrey Epstein used Royal Air Force bases to traffic women and girls into the UK.
- MoD officials are tasked with searching military files and providing any flight logs linked to the late paedophile financier to the relevant police authorities.
- This directive follows former prime minister Gordon Brown's call for investigations into whether Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor used taxpayer-funded jets and RAF bases to meet Epstein during his time as trade envoy.
- Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor and Lord Peter Mandelson, a former UK ambassador to Washington, were arrested and subsequently released on bail earlier this month in connection with alleged links to Epstein.
- Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has declined to call for a public inquiry into Epstein's potential use of British airports, stating that ongoing police investigations should proceed first.
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