00:00West Midlands Police says it is assessing information about private jet flights linked to Jeffrey Epstein at Birmingham Airport after
00:08the U.S. Department of Justice released the latest large batch of documents relating to the disgraced convicted paedophile.
00:16In a statement released to the media, the force said it is reviewing material on flights into and out of
00:23the airport. The papers include emails and other records. Some references appear to suggest women were brought into and out
00:31of the U.K. on certain trips, but the documents do not, on their own, establish what happened on any
00:37specific flight.
00:38Police say this is part of a wider review by forces across the U.K. Writing in The New Statesman,
00:45former Prime Minister Gordon Brown said the files indicate Epstein's aircraft made 90 flights to or from U.K. airports,
00:53including 15 after his 2008 U.S. conviction for sex offences.
00:59The news comes as police this week arrested Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor on suspicion of misconduct in public office. He was
01:07released under investigation, has not been charged and denies wrongdoing.
01:12Birmingham Airport says chartered aircraft operate independently through third parties. Passengers are processed through a private border facility and it
01:22says it has no prior knowledge of arrangements on those flights.
01:25They will provide any records held to official investigators.
01:29They will provide any records held to official investigators.
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