Andrew should be interviewed by police, former PM Gordon Brown says

Former UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown has urged the Metropolitan Police to urgently interview Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor and to revisit their investigation concerning the possibility that victims of Jeffrey Epstein were trafficked into and out of the United Kingdom. Brown’s call comes after his recent review of documents related to Epstein that were released by the US Department of Justice.

A BBC investigation conducted in December uncovered that between the early 1990s and 2018, a total of 87 flights connected to Epstein arrived at or departed from UK airports. Among these flights, some included British women who have reported being abused by Epstein. Brown highlighted that many of these flight logs identified female passengers only as unnamed “females,” and many of the male passengers were not identified because their names were withheld. He expressed concern that British authorities seemed unaware of the full scope of trafficking and the people involved, stating, “In short, British authorities had little or no idea who was being trafficked through our country, and for whom other than Epstein.”

Brown further insisted that the Metropolitan Police should urgently reconsider their investigation decisions and follow-up reviews. He pointed out that even women named in the Epstein files should have been contacted by British investigators after their names were requested from the US authorities—something that had not yet happened. He also noted that investigations related to Prince Andrew had not properly examined critical evidence regarding Epstein’s flights. Brown asked the police to address this oversight as part of a renewed inquiry, mentioning Stansted Airport specifically as a known location where women were transferred between Epstein’s planes, arguing that this necessitates interviewing Andrew.

The call for a thorough UK inquiry into Epstein’s activities echoes concerns from US lawyers representing hundreds of Epstein’s victims, who described the absence of a full-scale British investigation as “shocking.” One British woman who testified against Epstein’s associate Ghislaine Maxwell was recorded on more than ten flights Epstein paid for in and out of the UK between 1999 and 2006. Her lawyer told the BBC that UK police had never contacted her. Brown emphasized that an investigation in the UK could uncover those who enabled Epstein’s crimes domestically and determine if his associates prevented a British probe. Meanwhile, UK police stated they continue to evaluate claims involving Epstein, including allegations that he arranged for a woman to visit the UK for sex with Prince Andrew in Windsor in 2010, and are coordinating with US law enforcement as their work proceeds

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