Essex Police Probes Stansted Flights for Hyperlinks to Epstein – Journal Posts

Essex Police said it is reviewing information on private flights into and out of Stansted Airport following the release of the Epstein files by the US Department of Justice, after Former Prime Minister Gordon Brown urged police to urgently examine whether victims were trafficked within and outside the UK.

Brown noted Stansted as a key transfer point, writing to chiefs at the Met, Essex, and Thames Valley Police, saying the scale of trafficking would be clearer if flights were investigated. Stansted Airport said all private aircraft are handled through independent operators and that it has no visibility of passenger arrangements, with immigration and customs checks carried out directly by Border Force.

BBC News has contacted police forces where Epstein-linked flights landed, including Police Scotland, Merseyside, Belfast, West Midlands, and Bedfordshire. A new national group set up by the National Police Chiefs’ Council is supporting UK forces assessing allegations.

In December, the BBC identified three British women allegedly trafficked who appear in Epstein’s flight records alongside other documents. Lawyers for hundreds of Epstein victims called the lack of a full-scale UK investigation “shocking.”

Source: BBC