{"id":431022,"date":"2026-02-17T21:04:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T21:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/431022\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T21:04:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T21:04:07","slug":"police-assessing-stansted-airport-flights-over-epstein-ties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/431022\/","title":{"rendered":"Police assessing Stansted Airport flights over Epstein ties"},"content":{"rendered":"

Stansted Airport said all private aircraft use entirely independent terminals not operated by Stansted, and the airport does not manage or have any visibility of passenger arrangements on privately operated aircraft.<\/p>\n

A new national group has been set up to support UK police forces that are “assessing allegations” following the publication of the Epstein files, the National Police Chiefs’ Council (NPCC) has said.<\/p>\n

Thames Valley Police is assessing allegations, reported by the BBC<\/a>, that a second woman was sent to the UK by Jeffrey Epstein for a sexual encounter with Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor.<\/p>\n

The force previously said it has held discussions with specialists from the Crown Prosecution Service about the allegations that Andrew shared confidential reports with Epstein during his time as the UK’s trade envoy.<\/p>\n

The former prince has always denied any wrongdoing.<\/p>\n

Earlier this month, the Metropolitan Police launched a criminal investigation into Peter Mandelson following claims he passed market-sensitive information to Epstein.<\/p>\n

Lord Mandelson, former business secretary and British ambassador to the US, has previously expressed regret for his continued association with Epstein<\/a> and apologised “to the women and the girls who suffered”.<\/p>\n

He was dismissed from his role as ambassador role in September, after Downing Street said new information had emerged about the depth of this relationship with Epstein.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Stansted Airport said all private aircraft use entirely independent terminals not operated by Stansted, and the airport does…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":431023,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-431022","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-kingdom","8":"tag-gb","9":"tag-great-britain","10":"tag-greatbritain","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=431022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431022\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/431023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}