Almost 90 flights linked to Jeffrey Epstein arrived at and departed from UK airports, some with British women on board who say they were abused by the billionaire, a BBC investigation has found. We have established that three British women who were allegedly trafficked appear in Epstein's records of flights in and out of the UK and other documents related to the convicted sex offender. US lawyers representing hundreds of Epstein victims told the BBC it was 'shocking' that there has never been a 'full-scale UK investigation' into his activities on the other side of the Atlantic. The UK was one of the 'centrepieces' of Epstein's operations, one said. Testimony from one of these British victims helped convict Epstein's accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell of child sex-trafficking in the US in 2021. But the victim has never been contacted by UK police, her Florida-based lawyer Brad Edwards told the BBC. The woman, given the name Kate in the trial, was listed as having been on more than 10 flights paid for by Epstein in and out of the UK between 1999 and 2006.
US lawyer Sigrid McCawley said the British authorities have 'not taken a closer look at those flights, at where he was at, who he was seeing at those moments, and who was with him on those planes, and conducted a full investigation'. Under the Jeffrey Epstein Transparency Act, the deadline to release all US government files on the sex-offender financier is Friday. But the flight logs were among thousands of documents from court cases and Epstein's estate which have been already made public over the past year, revealing more about his time in the UK.
The BBC examined these documents as part of an investigation trying to piece together Epstein's activities in the UK. It revealed that the incomplete flight logs and manifests record 87 flights linked to Epstein - dozens more than were previously known - arriving or departing from UK airports between the early 1990s and 2018. Although Epstein died in jail in 2019, before his trial on charges of trafficking minors for sex, legal experts have told the BBC a UK investigation could reveal whether British-based people enabled his crimes.
The Met did not respond to our questions. On Saturday, it released a broader statement saying that it had 'not received any additional evidence that would support reopening the investigation' into Epstein and Maxwell's trafficking activities in the UK. US lawyer Brad Edwards noted that three or four of his clients are British women 'who were abused on British soil'. If British police were to launch an investigation into Epstein's activities and his enablers, Kate would be happy to help. 'You don't think about the accountant and the lawyer and the banker - or all the bankers - and all these people that had to implicitly, and sometimes explicitly, be OK with what was happening for it to continue.'
US lawyer Sigrid McCawley said the British authorities have 'not taken a closer look at those flights, at where he was at, who he was seeing at those moments, and who was with him on those planes, and conducted a full investigation'. Under the Jeffrey Epstein Transparency Act, the deadline to release all US government files on the sex-offender financier is Friday. But the flight logs were among thousands of documents from court cases and Epstein's estate which have been already made public over the past year, revealing more about his time in the UK.
The BBC examined these documents as part of an investigation trying to piece together Epstein's activities in the UK. It revealed that the incomplete flight logs and manifests record 87 flights linked to Epstein - dozens more than were previously known - arriving or departing from UK airports between the early 1990s and 2018. Although Epstein died in jail in 2019, before his trial on charges of trafficking minors for sex, legal experts have told the BBC a UK investigation could reveal whether British-based people enabled his crimes.
The Met did not respond to our questions. On Saturday, it released a broader statement saying that it had 'not received any additional evidence that would support reopening the investigation' into Epstein and Maxwell's trafficking activities in the UK. US lawyer Brad Edwards noted that three or four of his clients are British women 'who were abused on British soil'. If British police were to launch an investigation into Epstein's activities and his enablers, Kate would be happy to help. 'You don't think about the accountant and the lawyer and the banker - or all the bankers - and all these people that had to implicitly, and sometimes explicitly, be OK with what was happening for it to continue.'
