thestealingofemily.co.ukBBC Uncovers Epstein’s Abuse in Four London Flats
Epstein housed abuse victims in London flats, BBC reveals – BBC News
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A BBC investigation into millions of US Department of Justice records says Jeffrey Epstein housed abuse victims in four London flats for years after the Metropolitan Police declined to investigate trafficking allegations made in 2015.
The evidence, drawn from receipts, emails and bank records in the Epstein Files, links the properties to repeated cross-Channel movements of women, some of whom were allegedly coerced into recruiting others. The report says more than 50 Eurostar tickets were bought between 2011 and 2019, with 33 purchased after the 2015 complaint.
The findings raise serious questions about missed opportunities to intervene and whether UK authorities failed in their duty to investigate credible allegations of trafficking.
BBC files expose extensive UK trafficking links
The BBC’s review of the released records indicates that Epstein maintained at least four flats in Kensington and Chelsea to house women, many from Russia, eastern Europe and elsewhere, after the Met decided not to pursue Virginia Giuffre’s 2015 trafficking allegations.
According to the report, some of the women were later identified as victims of Epstein’s abuse, while others were allegedly pressured into recruiting more young women. The records also point to regular travel between London and Paris, suggesting a structured operation that continued until Epstein’s arrest in 2019.
Missed opportunities and legal obligations
Human rights lawyer Tessa Gregory said it was “staggering” that no UK investigation had been launched despite credible trafficking allegations, pointing to the state’s obligations under Article 4 of the European Convention on Human Rights.
Former anti-slavery commissioner Kevin Hyland said the available evidence should have been more than enough to trigger an inquiry, arguing that repeated travel bookings, housing arrangements and victim complaints were all warning signs that should have been acted on.
The report also says British authorities knew by 2020 that Epstein had rented at least one of the London flats identified in the files.
Inside the coercion and control tactics
Messages cited in the files suggest Epstein presented himself as a landlord who paid rent for women he housed, while using that support to create dependence and control. In some cases, he is said to have framed rent as either a gift in exchange for work or a debt to be repaid.
The records also describe overcrowded living conditions, payments for English language courses, and attempts to involve women in identifying or recruiting others. Together, they portray a system of coercion, dependency and cross-border movement.
Renewed scrutiny and possible reopening
Following the release of the Epstein Files, UK police forces are reviewing new material through a National Police Chiefs’ Council group. The Met has said it is assessing information suggesting London airports may have been used as transit points in trafficking routes.
No UK-based individual has been charged as a result of these latest disclosures. However, the scale of the evidence and the criticism of earlier inaction are likely to intensify calls for fresh investigations into Epstein’s UK network and any accomplices who may still have escaped scrutiny.
Jeffrey Epstein, the billionaire sex offender, remains in the headlines, with many unanswered questions still surrounding his global sex-trafficking operation.
A review of the millions of documents in the Epstein Files, released in January, suggests that Epstein had established part of his sex-trafficking network in the UK.
The investigation found that Epstein had an established network in the UK, with people who helped him there. It also identified flats where some of the women were housed, while credit-card receipts showed how their lives were funded. There was also travel in and out of the UK. Despite this, there has never been a full police investigation into his activities in Britain or into any of the people who helped him.
The reporting focused on the final years of Epstein’s life, after Virginia Giuffre, one of his accusers, made a complaint to the Metropolitan Police in 2015, saying she had been trafficked to the UK by Epstein in the early 2000s. She took her own life last year.
Receipts in the files show that after 2015, Epstein was routinely moving women back and forth from the UK to France via Eurostar. The women would then end up at Epstein’s 18-room central Paris home. One survivor said he liked being in the city because he was virtually anonymous and there were always girls there waiting for him.
Back in the UK, the London borough of Kensington and Chelsea appears repeatedly in the Epstein Files. It was there that four addresses were identified that had been rented by Epstein for some of the women he abused to live in.
Kevin Hyland, a former senior Metropolitan Police detective and the UK’s first Independent Anti-Slavery Commissioner, said:
People are outraged that somebody came forward and said, “I was trafficked by this man”, and yet he was just allowed to carry on. Who in the police made that decision? A lot of people will say, “Epstein’s dead, so there’s nothing that can be done.” But we would not have said that about Jimmy Savile, and look what that revealed.
Survivors of Epstein in the United States are now calling for a UK public inquiry to establish why no investigation was ever carried out into Epstein’s abuse.
Human rights lawyer Tessa Gregory said the UK has a legal obligation to investigate human trafficking, whether or not a victim comes forward:
There appear to be credible allegations that young women and girls were trafficked into and through the UK by Epstein and his associates for the purposes of sexual exploitation. The UK state, even if no victims come forward, has a positive legal obligation to conduct a prompt, effective and independent investigation.
These findings were put to the Metropolitan Police, which said it was confident it had fulfilled its legal duties and was still assessing whether UK airports had been used as transit points in the facilitation of sexual exploitation and human trafficking.
There are now serious questions about whether Epstein’s sex-trafficking network could at least have been interrupted if a full police investigation had been launched in the UK after Virginia Giuffre’s 2015 complaint.
Now it is not clear whether, or why, Keir Starmer, as prosecutor, ever carried out discovery in relation to Egov.co.uk, because there are no documents showing that his office examined it either as a mechanism for holding details on vulnerable children who had been drawn into prostitution in Rotherham and Rochdale, or as something connected to the Education Acts, whose operation appears to have allowed children to be removed from effective oversight by failing to attend a virtual school. You really could not make this up: the process is described there.
Had that examination been carried out, he would, in my opinion, have seen that the system was being run in breach of the EU Adequacy Agreement through the use of EU servers. So what is this arrangement that, in my view, placed vulnerable or disabled children at even greater risk through Gary Daniels’ EGOV.UK.COM and EPEP.TV? It is a payment made by a local authority for the holding of a registration containing the details of those children, including a photograph and other information, in a form that is disturbingly akin to a dating app.
“If this material was relevant, why does it not appear on the record of the head of the investigatory unit, given that it could have led to scrutiny of the Education Acts and the way vulnerable children were removed from effective oversight?”
Local-media snippets say Jeffrey Epstein was “directly contacted about” or “directly alerted to the sale of” at least one of the Isle of Wight’s famous historic mansions. That supports interest in at least one Island property, not “all the housing.” The Riverside Centre on the Isle of Wight is publicly described as one of Community Action Isle of Wight’s entities, and official Isle of Wight Council material shows it being used as a venue for council/Virtual School and SEND-related events.Organisations At The Riverside – The Riverside Centre | Isle of Wight
The County Press story headline is “Jeffrey Epstein files linked to Isle of Wight mansion sale” or “Historic Isle of Wight mansion gets unexpected mention in Jeffrey Epstein files”; search and social snippets from the paper say Epstein was “directly contacted about” or “directly alerted to the sale of one of the Island’s most famous historic mansions.” one snippet also says the mansion was the Island’s “most famous and most scandal-soaked” historic mansion. Files from the Epstein Transpiracy Act provide informationThe Mark Lloyd email to Jeffrey Epstein dated 20 May 2015 appears in DOJ Volume 11 as EFTA02501625 that this Mansion house was named Appuldurcombe House, Wroxall Isle of White was being offered for £6 million, with restoration costs estimated at a further £8 million to £10 million. Perhaps the Question should be why was John Lloyd in contact with Epstein in the first place?
Is this opening up a string of properties and potential other homes owned by Epstein?
https://www.countypress.co.uk/news/25825515.jeffrey-epstein-files-linked-isle-wight-mansion-sale/
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