Prince Andrew case is beneath evaluation in London, police chief says
London — The chief of London’s Metropolitan Police mentioned Thursday that the division is reviewing its information on Britain’s Prince Andrew, who’s dealing with a lawsuit over alleged sexual assault in the USA. She mentioned the division just isn’t, nonetheless, opening an official investigation presently.
“Because of what is going on on, I’ve requested my crew to have one other take a look at the fabric,” the police chief, Cressida Dick, mentioned on a month-to-month call-in radio present she hosts. “Nobody is above the regulation.”
Earlier this week, Virginia Giuffre sued Andrew, who’s the second son of Britain’s Queen Elizabeth, in U.S. federal court docket. She alleges Jeffrey Epstein pressured her to have intercourse with Andrew when she was 17. Giuffre, now 38, says she had undesirable sexual encounters with the prince in New York and London. He has denied any wrongdoing.
When requested concerning the allegations towards Prince Andrew on her radio program, Dick declined to touch upon any residing people. Nonetheless, she mentioned she believed the query was associated to allegations towards Jeffrey Epstein, which she was keen to touch upon, as a result of he’s deceased.
“We have now had a couple of allegation that’s linked to Mr. Epstein, and we have now reviewed these, assessed these, and we have now not opened an investigation,” Dick mentioned.
“I am conscious that presently there’s much more commentary within the media, and an obvious civil court docket case occurring in America, and we are going to after all once more evaluation our place,” she mentioned.
Regardless of the fabric having been reviewed twice earlier than, Dick mentioned she had requested her crew to once more ask: “Is there proof of against the law? Is that this the appropriate jurisdiction for this to be handled, and is the individual towards whom the crime is alleged nonetheless alive?”
Dick mentioned the Metropolitan Police have been open to working with authorities from different nations.
“We’re after all open to working with authorities from abroad. We’ll give them each help in the event that they need to, in the event that they ask us for something. Throughout the regulation, clearly.”
