[0:00]well tonight the met is also under pressure over a far more recent scandal an investigation by this program into the notorious sex abuser jeffrey epstein and his alleged partner galen maxwell
[0:11]has found multiple claims that the pair targeted groomed trafficked and sexually abused at least half a dozen young women in the uk over a 10-year period
[0:22]the allegations have never been fully investigated by the metropolitan police despite repeated complaints to the force the metropolitan commissioner has previously insisted that any decision not to investigate had
[0:34]nothing to do with prince andrew but that it was a matter for the u.s authorities where gelaine maxwell is facing trial but tonight senior legal figures in the uk who have reviewed our evidence from
[0:45]this country are calling for a full criminal investigation into what they call serious allegations and just to warn you my report does contain references to
[0:55]sexual abuse i was terrified and i was telling him to stop jeffrey epstein is dead but the
[1:08]consequences of his crimes live on for more than a decade he used his money and power to abuse hundreds of young women aided and
[1:18]abetted it's claimed by his british partner gelane maxwell she is a monster she she's worse than epstein she was pulling the strings she had his
[1:29]money he had her contacts their gilded world now lies in ruins hunted by the police in america france and the caribbean the investigations have spanned
[1:41]continents but in this country there's been a deafening silence from the metropolitan police we raised new questions about what epstein and maxwell did
[1:51]here in the uk we reveal claims of abuse involving multiple separate women in london over the last decade the true number may be much higher but despite this while police forces
[2:02]across the world have launched investigations scotland yard has seemingly done very little tonight we ask why there is clearly enough evidence for the
[2:14]police to investigate more thoroughly than they have done and one wonders whether there are other issues at play here for years the daughter of disgraced
[2:26]media mogul robert maxwell lived a rarefied life in the highest echelons of british society a regular fixture at the most glamorous
[2:35]parties in mayfair and knightsbridge and close to royalty itself [Music] we've poured over thousands of court documents accounts books photographs and
[2:47]videos and spoken with multiple sources they reveal that both maxwell and epstein regularly visited the uk where alleged abuse took place
[2:57]some of the cases are well known but others have never been revealed before gelane maxwell will stand trial in america later this year accused of
[3:09]grooming and trafficking young women and girls for sex maxwell was among epstein's closest associates
[3:17]and helped him exploit girls who were as young as 14 years old the indictment against her is based on the evidence of four women who were
[3:29]groomed and abused the abuse of the third called only minor victim 3 took place entirely in the uk some of the acts of abuse also took
[3:41]place in maxwell's residence in london england maxwell's london home was the scene of the most notorious incident involving a young 17 year old called virginia roberts
[3:52]now dufres she claims she was trafficked to london and made to have sex with prince andrew in 2001. i implore the people in the uk
[4:04]to stand up beside me to help me fight this fight prince andrew insists he doesn't remember her and denies
[4:14]any sexual contact took place i was with the children i'd taken beatrice to a pizza express in working
[4:24]for a party one british victim has spoken out she's anushka de giorgio a socialite and model who now lives in the us
[4:36]i was involved in that kind of lifestyle growing up and so i thought i could cope and i thought i could handle it by the time i was being raped it was too late she was a teenager when
[4:53]she met maxwell and epstein in london and she claims she was forced to have sex with epstein multiple times when jeffrey would see me he would
[5:04]physically shake because he wanted to get at me she's by no means the only woman targeted in london civil court documents filed by a victim
[5:15]known only as jane doe claim she was abused manipulated and exploited by epstein in the uk in what she describes as horrific abuse
[5:25]here she states she was a naive and uniquely vulnerable 22 year old when epstein and maxwell first preyed upon her that was around 2001 they followed years
[5:37]of abuse she claimed she was repeatedly raped and forced to give epstein oral sex the documents claimed this occurred in new york palm beach new mexico
[5:47]london paris on epstein's private island on epstein's airplanes and other locations yet another london victim is referred to
[5:58]in an account in this book on the epstein scandal written by the lawyer bradley edwards in it he tells the story of a woman known only as fantasia
[6:08]another time while in london fantasia and gillane encountered a very young looking girl who fantasia thought was innocent and should be left alone she recounted maxwell protesting and
[6:19]telling her that someone had to give epstein a [ __ ] and if this new girl didn't do it then maxwell herself would have to and clearly she didn't want to we showed
[6:30]the evidence to harriet wistrich a leading sex crime solicitor the number of testimonies goes to the likelihood that this was a very big
[6:41]operation of organized sexual exploitation do you think we know the full story of what happened here in the uk no i don't think we do i have had the opportunity to look
[6:53]at just a little bit of the evidence that that exists and that was quite shocking to me and that should merit a proper investigation so we've tried to find out what really
[7:04]happened what we've unearthed suggests there was grooming as well as physical abuse we've spoken to people who knew galen maxwell in london
[7:14]we're told she gravitated towards and surrounded herself with young women they made me feel young she'd say gillane would also invite young women to stay at her town house in london
[7:25]and epstein's mansion in new york she also offered visits to his private island in the caribbean with free flights on his private jet it kind of worked like a pyramid scheme
[7:37]guilin brought me in i brought other girls in those girls brought other girls in and no matter what jeffrey constantly had that open revolving door of young women young teenagers children i like to call
[7:49]them coming through his door for one purpose and one purpose alone nazir afzal is a former chief crown prosecutor in the rochdale grooming gang cases there appears to be a pattern that young
[8:01]women are approached they're offered money modeling opportunities support for their education and those offers then led to allegations of sexual abuse
[8:11]um is that grooming that's exactly what it is grooming is when an individual particularly an individual in a sort of power dynamic uh uses psychology uses
[8:22]emotional blackmail ensures that financial tools are applied presses every button that a vulnerable person has in order to in effect to abuse them
[8:34]initiates consent so somebody might think for example that they have consented to sex but that consent wasn't true consent because it was either compliance so they
[8:46]complied with whatever it is that they were required to do they acquiesced which meant they were under control and to be clear you can be groomed even if you're over the age of consent it's
[8:58]vulnerability that determines whether you can be groomed or not and adults can be groomed over and over again epstein's victims have spoken of how gallane maxwell
[9:09]targeted women with the offer of modeling work she said she needed models for victoria's secret and because one time i asked like why are they so young model alicia arden says she was lured to
[9:24]epstein's hotel room in california where he assaulted her she left this distressed message for a friend straight afterwards i just came out of the um hotel for meeting
[9:36]jeffrey i didn't expect that i had to be in a blow on underwear in front of him in the hotel room and and then he was touching my butt and then he got actually a little mad the technique of
[9:47]luring young women with modelling opportunities was also deployed right here in britain adella king now a fashion designer says she was 20 years old when she met epstein
[9:59]in an instagram post she says gillane maxwell invited her here to claridge's hotel for a casting campaign for victoria's secret she says epstein opened the door to his
[10:10]suite and sat down on his sofa and looked through my portfolio and then instructed me to pose in a degrading way and said he'd be in touch she said she'd
[10:21]had a lucky escape my heart breaks for all those that didn't we still don't know how many more women were targeted like adela but what we do
[10:32]know is that epstein spent considerable time here flight records disclosed in court cases in the u.s reveal epstein's plane flew in and out of uk airports
[10:43]at least 51 times between 1997 and 2012. one was to raf maram just 20 minutes from the royal retreat at sandringham
[10:55]epstein and maxwell went grouse hunting with prince andrew and attended his 40th birthday party they also visited balmoral
[11:05]so close was gelane maxwell to prince andrew this photo captured her and actor kevin spacey lounging in the throne room at buckingham palace
[11:15]in 2002 it was 2006 when jeffrey epstein's appalling crimes first came to light leading to his conviction yet prince
[11:25]andrews stayed in close contact with him making global headlines when he was spotted with him in new york in 2010 despite the high profile scandal all of
[11:38]this seemingly escaped the attention of the police here at scotland yard until 2015 when a british child abuse campaigner filed a formal complaint
[11:48]claiming that epstein and maxwell had trafficked a woman to the uk for sex the complaint was based on the court testimony of virginia roberts who was just 17 when she said she was
[11:59]pressured by epstein to have sex with prince andrew in london but astonishingly as channel 4 news previously revealed the specialist crime and operations section that handled the complaint
[12:11]decided not to investigate we can also reveal that virginia herself made a complaint directly in 2016. she offered additional evidence and even
[12:22]suggested potential witnesses but once again the police failed to investigate the met have never acknowledged that this happened when we put it to them in writing in
[12:33]2019 they simply ignored the questions in a statement the met told us they were not the appropriate authority to investigate and that any investigation would be largely focused
[12:45]on activities and relationships outside the uk in november 2016 they said a decision was made not to proceed to a full criminal investigation
[12:56]and that was the end of it because just on prince andrew the police did confirm that a complaint had been looked into but then it wasn't taken any further does it worry you at all that this is
[13:08]still the focus of inquiries in the united states but not here where the matter is supposed to have taken place no the the the locus and focus of any investigation
[13:17]in relation to uh jeffrey epstein for example is clearly a in america and um you know if the americans need our assistance as any stage
[13:28]then we will we will give them that and what we've always needed is a proper investigation we cannot outsource our inves investigation to the fbi or the american attorney's office we
[13:38]have crimes allegedly committed here in london that ought to be prosecuted here in london or at least be investigated here in london and on the basis of what i've read there is more than a reasonable suspicion that
[13:50]crimes have occurred these are very serious allegations there is no time limit in the united kingdom in relation to serious offences so there is no legal bar here at all so if the police were to
[14:02]say well the specific laws did not exist to enable us to prosecute those crimes at that particular time that wouldn't wash with you it's nonsense
[14:13]if the police have properly investigated they would have found a swathe of potential witnesses to gillane's activities in britain her now infamous address book the black book is full of famous names but also
[14:25]staff and people the couple relied on in london drivers cleaners food delivery companies doctors and masseuses we've tracked some of those people down
[14:35]none of them would go on camera but not a single potential witness we spoke to told us they'd been approached by the police and it's not just witnesses either
[14:45]most of the victims we've identified in the uk are listed here in black and white and there may be more still hidden the met have explicitly denied that prince andrew's involvement with maxwell
[14:57]and epstein had any bearing on their decision not to investigate fully do you think that galaine maxwell and jeffrey epstein were treated
[15:08]differently because of their connection with prince andrew the perception here is that a different approach was taken in relation to these alleged offenses than there would be if it was some brown guy in rochdale
[15:20]or some of sex offender in london who didn't have any standing at if it were happening anywhere else with any other people involved there would be no doubt in my mind they would be investigated
[15:31]you follow the evidence that has always been my experience you act without fear or favor that's always been my experience and you undermine public confidence when you choose not to do that you
[15:42]talked about other issues being potentially in play do you think one of those issues might be that prince andrew was associated with gilead maxwell it's hard not to conclude that that may
[15:54]be the case uh it's clearly um an embarrassment for the met police uh we also know that met police will have been involved in his personal protection
[16:06]and so there may be issues of conflict of interest there if prince andrew was being taken to various premises by his met personal protection officers they may have had constructive knowledge
[16:17]of what was going on it's not a reason not to investigate nbc news has learned that disgraced financier jeffrey epstein
[16:27]is dead in july 2019 jeffrey epstein took his own life in a prison in new york maxwell disappeared but was tracked down
[16:39]and arrested in new hampshire in july last year we allege that from at least 1994 through at least 1997 miss maxwell assisted jeffrey epstein's
[16:49]abuse of minor girls by helping to recruit entice groom and abuse children under the age of 18. gillane maxwell will stand trial in november
[17:00]central to the case against her is her role in grooming and trafficking young women for sex in the u.s and the uk she denies the charges
[17:11]and her legal team have been fighting hard to get the allegations of the british accuser thrown out claiming that no crimes were committed here in a few months we're going to see a
[17:21]british victim known as minor victim 3 stand up in an american court and give evidence about offences that took place here in london and yet she has never been interviewed by the uk police what do you make of
[17:32]that that's really quite extraordinary isn't it do you think that matt will be embarrassed i think they should be embarrassed we put all the evidence to the met tonight they
[17:44]told us they stand by their decision not to open a full criminal investigation they repeated the claim they always take allegations of sexual abuse seriously
[17:54]but said they would review the evidence obtained by channel 4 news evidence that has been in plain sight for years if they'd bothered to look
[18:05]well earlier when i was speaking to the assistant commissioner f grave i also asked him about our investigation we're here today because of your failure
[18:15]over the years to properly investigate the morgan murder tonight we're reporting there are more than half a dozen claims from women preyed on by jeffrey epstein and his associates
[18:26]in the uk and again you're not investigating so will you learn from the past and commit to investigating that now i'm here to talk about the daniel morgan murder investigation
[18:37]and the report that's come out today and i want to give due respect to that report so that's what i'm here to talk about