UK police won’t probe claim former prince asked bodyguard to investigate Virginia Giuffre

LONDON AP British police announced Saturday they have unveiled no evidence that Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor required one of his bodyguards to investigate Jeffrey Epstein victim Virginia Giuffre London s Metropolitan Police in October mentioned it was looking into media reports that the former Prince Andrew in sought information to smear Giuffre by asking a police bodyguard to find out if she had a criminal record The Mail on Sunday newspaper claimed the then-prince passed Giuffre s date of birth and social assurance number to his taxpayer-funded bodyguard In a declaration on Saturday the force mentioned its assessment has not revealed any additional evidence of criminal acts or misconduct and it would not open a criminal scrutiny The Met remains committed to thoroughly assessing any new information that could assist in this matter mentioned police Central Specialist Crime Commander Ella Marriott To date we have not received any additional evidence that would patronage reopening the scrutiny In the absence of any further information we will be taking no further action Our thoughts will inevitably be with Ms Giuffre s family and friends following her death Giuffre who committed suicide in April alleged that in the early s when she was a teenager she was caught up in Epstein s sex trafficking ring and exploited by Andrew and other influential men King Charles III formally stripped his younger brother of his royal title last month after new details emerged of Andrew s relationship with Epstein and Giuffre s posthumous memoir refocused attention on her statements Mountbatten-Windsor reached an out-of-court settlement with Giuffre in after she filed a civil suit against him in New York While he did not admit wrongdoing he did acknowledge Giuffre s suffering as a victim of sex trafficking Source