British police mentioned on Monday they might be taking no additional motion after conducting a assessment of proof regarding intercourse crime allegations towards Queen Elizabeth’s son, Prince Andrew, and the late U.S. financier Jeffrey Epstein.
London’s police chief, Cressida Dick, mentioned in August that detectives would take a look at the allegations for a 3rd time though they might not begin an investigation, after Virginia Giuffre filed a U.S. lawsuit accusing the prince of sexual assault which he has all the time denied.
She had mentioned on the time that “nobody is above the legislation”.
“As a matter of process MPS (Metropolitan Police Service) officers reviewed a doc launched in August 2021 as a part of a U.S. civil motion,” the police mentioned in an announcement on Monday. “This assessment has concluded and we’re taking no additional motion.”
In her civil lawsuit, Giuffre, 38, has accused Andrew of forcing her to have intercourse when she was underage on the London house of Epstein’s longtime affiliate Ghislaine Maxwell.
She additionally mentioned Andrew, 61, abused her at Epstein’s mansion in Manhattan, and on Epstein’s personal island within the U.S. Virgin Islands.
The British royal, the ninth in line to the throne, has all the time denied these allegations or having any relationship with Giuffre.
He was pressured to step down from royal duties over his friendship with Epstein, who dedicated suicide in a Manhattan jail cell in 2019 whereas being held on sex-trafficking fees.
The Sunday Instances had reported this week that London police had spoken to Giuffre concerning her allegations.
“The Metropolitan Police Service continues to liaise with different legislation enforcement companies who lead the investigation into issues associated to Jeffrey Epstein,” the police mentioned of their assertion.
Final week, attorneys for Andrew, the queen’s second son, got permission to look at a confidential 2009 settlement between Epstein and Giuffre which they hope will absolve him from all legal responsibility within the case.
(Reuters)