{"id":440082,"date":"2026-02-22T19:20:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T19:20:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/440082\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T19:20:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T19:20:15","slug":"brown-urges-police-probe-into-whether-andrew-used-raf-bases-to-meet-epstein","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/440082\/","title":{"rendered":"Brown urges police probe into whether Andrew used RAF bases to meet Epstein"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Andrew has previously denied any wrongdoing in relation to Epstein, who died in a New York prison cell in 2019 as he awaited trial on sex trafficking charges.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/live\/c70kjr9wjw0t?post=asset%3A2b44330d-6028-4876-8fee-b09000f40dd0#post\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brown told the BBC last week<\/a> that he had &#8220;submitted a five-page memorandum to the Metropolitan, Surrey, Sussex Thames Valley and other relevant UK police constabularies&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said: &#8220;This memorandum provides new and additional information to that which I submitted last week to the Met, Essex and Thames Valley police forces where I expressed my concern that we secure justice for trafficked girls and women.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/royal-family\/2026\/02\/21\/andrew-taxpayer-funded-jets-jeffrey-epstein-raf-base-police\/\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sunday Telegraph reports that the former prime minister is also understood to be concerned, external<\/a> about a flight Epstein took on a Gulfstream jet that landed at RAF Marham air base in Norfolk in December 2000. The base is around 20 miles (32 km) from the Sandringham Estate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">These flights and other Epstein flights in and out of the UK featured in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cy4709kylkxo\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">BBC investigation in December.<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">When asked about these flights by the BBC in October 2025, the Ministry of Defence said &#8220;it is standard practice for spare capacity at RAF airfields in the UK to be used for private or commercial aircraft, subject to fees which cover all costs&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It added that such use &#8220;is not automatic and will only be approved when there is no adverse impact to military aircraft and where approval would not interfere with the security or smooth running of the airfield&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The MoD repeated this response when asked by the BBC again on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Emails from the Epstein files <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/epstein\/files\/DataSet%2010\/EFTA01809592.pdf\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">show an exchange in 2011, external<\/a> following an inquiry from a Telegraph journalist.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In an email message, Jon Swain asks if Andrew had secured permission for Epstein to use military bases. The question is forwarded to Epstein by Ghislaine Maxwell &#8211; who in 2021 was convicted in the US for her role in luring underage girls for him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Epstein responds to say, &#8220;just spoke to Larry\u2026 it&#8217;s true&#8221;. The man named Larry was Epstein&#8217;s chief pilot, who arranged many of his landings and logistics. Maxwell then responds using an expletive.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Sunday Telegraph says Brown is requesting that police examine whether Epstein was given access to RAF bases after his conviction for soliciting child prostitution in Florida in 2008.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Andrew has previously denied any wrongdoing in relation to Epstein, who died in a New York prison cell&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":440083,"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-440082","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\/440082","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=440082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440082\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/440083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}