Police are examining flight logs as part of the Epstein files showing private jets coming into and leaving a second British airport.
Bedfordshire Police confirmed today that investigators are “reviewing materials” over “private flights in and out” of London Luton Airport, detailed in the slew of data relating to disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein.
Essex Police also said it was assessing information relating to flights to and from Stansted Airport after the US Department of Justice published millions of documents gathered during investigations into the billionaire paedophile.
Last week, former prime minister Gordon Brown called for UK police forces to “urgently” re-examine claims women or girls were trafficked to the country aboard flights.
In an article for the New Statesman, Mr Brown said the recently published files relating to Jeffrey Epstein showed the paedophile financier’s jet making 90 flights to or from UK airports, including 15 after his 2008 sex offence conviction.
A spokesperson for Bedfordshire Police said: “Bedfordshire Police is reviewing materials published as part of the DOJ Disclosures Under the Epstein Files Transparency Act, in relation to private flights in and out of London Luton Airport.”
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Mr Brown also said that information in the Epstein files suggested “a number of British girls were on 90 Epstein flights organised from UK airports on what was called his [Epstein’s] ‘Lolita Express'”.
The former Labour chancellor demanded a full inquiry, and wrote: “I have asked the Met urgently to re-examine their decision-making in their investigation and the subsequent reviews.”
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He claimed the files showed in “graphic detail” how Epstein was flying “in girls from Latvia, Lithuania and Russia” to Stansted, where “women were transferred from one Epstein plane to another”, adding they “would not need British visas”.
Mr Brown said it also seemed as though UK authorities “never knew what was happening” and “had little or no idea who was being trafficked through our country”.
The statements from Bedfordshire Police and Essex Police come after the National Police Chiefs’ Council (NPCC) said that a national group had been set up to support UK police forces, which are “assessing allegations” following the publication of the Epstein files.
