A news report of additional British allegations against the couple calls into question Metropolitan Police Service's past failure to launch a criminal probe.
The Metropolitan Police Service confirmed in 2019 that it received allegations against Epstein and Maxwell involving trafficking in London in 2001, and for alleged sex trafficking outside the U.K. in 2015. But the MPS said it decided it “was not the appropriate authority” to conduct a full investigation that “would be largely focused on activities and relationships outside the U.K.
The MPS added that it continues to offer assistance to other law enforcement agencies investigating Epstein. Epstein, a convicted pedophile and millionaire financier, was facing U.S. sex trafficking charges when he was found dead in a New York City jail cell in 2019. His death was ruled a suicide by hanging.
Maxwell was arrested in July 2020 on multiple federal charges that allege she helped Epstein abuse girls and young women. She has
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