Last week, ex-Prime Minister Gordon Brown wrote in the New Statesman that police “urgently” needed to re-examine whether Epstein’s victims were trafficked within and outside of the UK.

Brown wrote that files showed Epstein’s jet had made 90 flights to or from UK airports, including 15 after his 2008 conviction for soliciting prostitution from a child.

He said Epstein “boasted” about how cheap airport charges were at Stansted compared to Paris.

Brown added that Stansted, about 40 miles (65km) from central London, was one of the airports “where women were transferred from one Epstein plane to another”, adding that “women arriving on private planes into Britain would not need British visas”.

Evidence uncovered by the BBC showed incomplete flight logs, with unnamed passengers simply labelled as “female”.