A renewed investigation into Jeffrey Epstein’s potential trafficking activities involving his private jet – the “Lolita Express” – has hit a significant roadblock because key official records no longer exist. UK police examining whether Epstein transported victims into Britain through Royal Air Force bases and commercial airports have discovered that critical flight documentation has been destroyed by routine data retention policies: RAF passenger manifests are only kept for three months, and air traffic control logs are purged after about two years, leaving investigators with large gaps in the flight history they hoped to trace. With no preserved official records, detectives may be forced to rely on emails, civil aviation files, and witness testimony to reconstruct the pattern of movements linked to the jet.
The development comes amid heightened scrutiny of whether flights to the UK – including at bases such as RAF Northolt – were tied to human trafficking and whether high-profile figures, including Prince Andrew (Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor), had any involvement or benefitted from these movements. Former Prime Minister Gordon Brown has urged six police forces to look deeper into the matter and press for interviews with airport staff and other potential sources of flight data that might not have been destroyed. A BBC investigation previously identified nearly 90 flights associated with Epstein’s aircraft between the 1990s and 2018, some of which allegedly involved British women, underscoring the public interest in uncovering evidence now lost due to routine data destruction.
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Cops reopen investigation into Epstein UK flights... but evidence ‘has been destroyed’
