Jeffrey Epstein’s nefarious criminal activities were not limited to America. According to the new investigation conducted by BBCA disgraced sex offender housed the victims of his abuse in one of Britain’s most elite areas.
These reports emerged years after the Metropolitan Police had initially refused to launch a full-scale investigation into his criminal activities.
Shocking evidence was discovered at four rental flats in the wealthy Kensington and Chelsea borough. These flats were used to house at least six women who have been identified as victims of Epstein’s sex trafficking.
according to a BBC The investigation revealed that women were trafficked to Britain from Russia, Europe and other parts of the world. According to emails in the files, some of the women were pressured into recruiting others into the trafficking scheme while acting as Epstein’s scouts in the UK fashion and modeling scenes.
The late convicted sex offender acted as a landlord to pay rent, provide monthly allowances and finance English courses to keep the pressure on his abuse victims.
Smuggling routes and Eurostar connections
In addition to placing the victims in affluent neighborhoods, Epstein also purchased at least 53 tickets for young women between London and Paris from 2011 to 2019.
More than 120 private and commercial flights linked to Epstein have now been identified as arriving or departing from Britain.
Additionally, the financier also leveraged its Eurostar connections to ensure the smooth transfer of women in and out of the UK. The horrific trafficking of women continued until his arrest by US authorities in July 2019.
UK police inaction
Despite allegations of sex trafficking, the Met Police remained inactive and decided not to pursue the case even after Virginia Giuffre complained that she had been trafficked and forced to have sex with Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor in 2001.
Former independent anti-slavery commissioner Kevin Hyland argued that police could have tracked credit card and IP address data for suspicious group travel bookings but failed to do so.
Tessa Gregory, Lee Day’s human rights lawyer, said: BBC“Where there are credible allegations of human trafficking, the UK State has a positive legal obligation to conduct a prompt, effective and independent investigation, even if no victims come forward.”
