GORDON Brown has demanded police investigate whether Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor used taxpayer-funded jets and RAF bases to meet Jeffrey Epstein, it has been revealed.
The former Labour prime minister wrote to six police forces suggesting that civil servants should be questioned about the royal’s time as trade envoy between 2001 and 2011.
Brown also demanded a full investigation into the trade envoy role, how much it cost taxpayers, and any evidence that links Mountbatten-Windsor’s government work to the convicted paedophile Epstein, the Sunday Telegraph reports.
The letters were sent to the Metropolitan Police, Surrey Police, Sussex Police, Thames Valley Police, Norfolk Constabulary and Bedfordshire police.
It comes after Mountbatten-Windsor was arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office. There have now been calls to remove him from the line of succession.
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The content of the letters was not publicly disclosed, but Brown said they contained “new and additional information”.
The Sunday Telegraph reports that the letter shows Brown’s concern that Mountbatten-Windsor used RAF flights to transport him to personal engagements which may have involved Epstein. It also suggests the disgraced royal might have leaked confidential information from the trips in a “wholly unacceptable” use of public money.
The former royal was reportedly nicknamed “Airmiles Andy” for using taxpayer-funded flights to take private leisure or business trips, usually on the way back from government engagements.
It is understood that Brown believes that given the close relationship between Mountbatten-Windsor and Epstein, the flights on public aircrafts may have been used to facilitate meetings with Epstein.
Previously, Mountbatten-Windsor has been accused of sexually abusing Virginia Giuffre, when she was 17, after she was introduced to him by Epstein. A claim Mountbatten-Windsor has repeatedly denied.
However, Brown has now called on police to interview officials at four government departments over Mountbatten-Windsor’s trade envoy role, as part of an attempt to uncover any link to the disgraced financier and convicted sex offender.
The departments are the Ministry of Defence (MoD), the Department for Transport, the Foreign Office and the Treasury.
Brown is also understood to be concerned about a flight the convicted paedophile took on a Gulfstream jet that landed at RAF Marham in Norfolk in December 2000.
Flight logs and emails disclosed by the US Justice Department in the latest release of the Epstein Files disclosed that a jet carrying Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell landed at Luton Airport on December 6 that year. The next day it made an 80-mile trip to RAF Marham, with two additional passengers. One is listed only as an unnamed “female”.
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After landing at the MoD base, Epstein and Maxwell are understood to have travelled 20 miles to the Queen’s Sandringham Estate, where they were understood to have been entertained by Mountbatten-Windsor. He also is alleged to have arranged their access to the base.
Brown has asked police to investigate whether Epstein was given access to RAF bases after his conviction for soliciting prostitution from a child in Florida in 2008.
The former prime minister is understood to have given officers an extensive list of runways used by Epstein in the UK, including Edinburgh, Belfast, Liverpool, Birmingham, Norfolk, Gatwick, Heathrow, Luton and Stansted.
Brown is said to believe Mountbatten-Windsor’s use of hundreds of thousands of pounds worth of taxpayers' flights may exacerbate the seriousness of his conduct, adding that airline employees and staff at the airports should be questioned.
He has also called for the MoD to release any records they hold to the police, and establish what due diligence checks were undertaken on Epstein before he was cleared to land.
Publicly, Brown has said he is concerned about the British’s state’s complicity in Epstein’s offences, arguing that the UK’s “unacknowledged role” in the Epstein case is “by far the biggest scandal of all”.
An MoD spokesperson said it was “standard practice” for private or commercial aircraft to use RAF airfields “subject to fees which cover all costs”.
“Such use 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,” the spokesperson added.
Police have continued to search Mountbatten-Windsor’s former home, Royal Lodge, over the weekend.
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