Epstein's London Flats: Missed Chances for Justice

0:00On April 24th, new revelations from the BBC show Jeffrey Epstein kept housing his female victims in London flats for years, even after British police, passed on investigating a key allegation back in 2015. He rented four apartments in fancy spots like Kensington and Chelsea, where women from places like Russia and Eastern Europe stayed. This all came after Virginia Jufrey reported being trafficked, but the Met Police decided not to dig deeper. The Epstein files, reviewed by the BBC for millions of US Justice Department pages, paint a bigger picture of his operation. Victims got shuttled via a Eurostar between London and Paris to meet him, and some were pressured to recruit others into the sex trafficking ring. This set up kept running strong right up until his death. Folks are fired up about how police missed clear chances to act. A former Met Detective called it outrageous, that Epstein just kept going after Jufrey spoke out, questioning who dropped the ball, and if others were, involved. A human rights lawyer slammed the Met for never probing these claims, saying they had a

1:03duty to review them. Digging deeper, Epstein bought over 50 Eurostar tickets from 2011 to 2019, with at least 33 after 20. 15, including one victim arriving in London just days before his arrest. One flat had a massive 10,000-page credit card bill, and he messaged victims of our rent deals tied to work for him. Now the Met's on a task force, with US partners, assessing info on London airports as trafficking hubs, but they haven't addressed the flats or tickets. Directly, this story's got layers, reminding us justice doesn't always move fast enough.