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Prince Andrew Facing No Police Action For Allegedly Seeking Info on Accuser

Maravi Post Reporter

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor will face no police action in the U.K. for allegedly trying to uncover information about late Jeffrey Epstein victim Virginia Giuffre.

A Metropolitan Police spokesperson told BBC News on Saturday, December 13, that it would “take no further action” over accusations that the former prince, 65, asked his taxpayer-funded security detail to investigate Giuffre. According to the Mail on Sunday, Mountbatten-Windsor gave Giuffre’s date of birth and social security number to a security officer to aid with an investigation.

However, a Met spokesperson announced on Saturday that its assessment had not found “any additional evidence of criminal acts or misconduct.”

“The Met remains committed to thoroughly assessing any new information that could assist in this matter,” a police spokesperson said.”To date, we have not received any additional evidence that would support reopening the investigation. In the absence of any further information, we will be taking no further action.”

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The statement continued. “As with any other matter, should new and relevant information be brought to our attention, including in any information resulting from the release of material in the U.S., we will assess it.”

Us Weekly reached out to Buckingham Palace for comment. Mountbatten-Windsor has not directly addressed these latest allegations but has always denied wrongdoing in relation to Epstein.

In the wake of the Met’s decision, Giuffre’s family released a statement saying they are “deeply disappointed” that U.K. police dropped the probe “without explanation and without speaking to us.”

“With the Epstein files about to be released by Congress since the passage of the Epstein Transparency Act, we are surprised that the Metropolitan Police didn’t wait to see what further evidence might appear,” Giuffre’s family said. “While we have hailed the U.K.’s overall handling of the case of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor previously, today we feel justice has not been served.”

Giuffre — who died by suicide at age 41 in April — first alleged in 2014 that convicted sex offender Epstein and his then-girlfriend, Ghislaine Maxwell, trafficked her to Mountbatten-Windsor. The former prince told BBC’s Newsnight in 2019 that he “never had any sort of sexual contact” with Giuffre and doubted whether he’d ever met her “at all.”

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Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor in 2022. Getty Images/AP Photo/Martin Meissner, Pool

Mountbatten-Windsor settled a civil sexual abuse lawsuit against Giuffre in 2022 without admitting any wrongdoing.

This week, House Democrats on the Oversight Committee released 19 archival photos recovered from the Epstein estate, including one featuring Mountbatten-Windsor with former Microsoft chairman Bill Gates. More than 95,000 photos have been recovered in the committee’s investigation thus far.

The pictures were released following the House overwhelmingly passing the Epstein Transparency Act on November 18 to force the Justice Department to release details of its investigation into the disgraced financier’s crimes. Epstein died by suicide at age 66 in August 2019, while Maxwell, 63, is serving a 20-year prison sentence for a conviction on sex trafficking charges.

While Mountbatten-Windsor has always denied knowing about or participating in Epstein’s crimes, he announced in October that he would give up his royal title.

“In discussion with The King, and my immediate and wider family, we have concluded the continued accusations about me distract from the work of His Majesty and the Royal Family,” Andrew said in a statement to Us on October 17. “I have decided, as I always have, to put my duty to my family and country first. I stand by my decision five years ago to stand back from public life.”

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On October 30, Buckingham Palace confirmed to Us that King Charles III had initiated the process of stripping his brother of all royal titles. Mountbatten-Windsor will also be required to move out of Royal Lodge, which he acquired in 2003 as part of a 75-year peppercorn lease.

“Prince Andrew will now be known as Andrew Mountbatten Windsor. His lease on Royal Lodge has, to date, provided him with legal protection to continue in residence,” a Buckingham Palace statement read. “Formal notice has now been served to surrender the lease and he will move to alternative private accommodation. These censures are deemed necessary, notwithstanding the fact that he continues to deny the allegations against him.”

If you or someone you know is a human trafficking victim, contact the National Human Trafficking Hotline at 1-888-373-7888.

Lifestyle

Bomb Blast Kills 26 in Northeast Nigeria

Maravi Post Reporter

Improvised explosive devices detonated on a road in northeastern Nigeria killing at least 26 people in several vehicles, including women and children, police said Tuesday. An Islamic State group affiliate in the West African country claimed responsibility for the Monday attack.

The blasts happened on a busy road connecting the towns of Rann and Gamboru in Borno state, near the border with Cameroon, Nigerian police spokesperson Nahum Daso told The Associated Press. Multiple explosives planted along the route ripped into several civilian commercial vehicles coming from Rann, killing at least 26 people, he said.

Most of those killed were local farmers and traders crowded in a Toyota pick up van that drove over a land mine, Daso said. He said the mine was buried by suspected militants from the Islamic State affiliate known as IS West Africa Province. Besides the dead, at least three people were injured and were taken to nearby medical facilities for treatment. Security forces have since secured the area and begun clearance operations.

Abba Modu, a member of the Civilian Joint Task Force, a vigilante group that supports the military in the fight against Islamic militants, said the explosives may have been intended for security operatives who regularly patrol the highway. “Terrorists often plant IEDs in craters or under sand on severely damaged sections of roads, typically targeting soldiers,” Modu said.

The Islamic State West Africa Province, also known as ISWAP, claimed responsibility for the attack in a statement on Telegram on Tuesday. The IS-linked group is an offshoot of Boko Haram, Nigeria’s homegrown jihadis who took up arms in 2009 to fight Western education and impose their radical version of Islamic law. In 2016, ISWAP broke away from Boko Haram following a dispute over leadership and the strategy of attacking civilian targets such as mosques and marketplaces. The conflict between Nigeria and Islamic extremists is Africa’s longest struggle with militancy.

It has spilled into Nigeria’s northern neighbours Chad, Niger and Cameroon, and has left some 35,000 civilians dead and more than 2 million displaced, according to the U.N. Nigeria’s northeastern region has been particularly hard hit by Islamic militant violence. Earlier this month, a roadside bomb suspected to have been planted by Islamic extremists in northeastern Nigeria struck a passenger bus and killed eight people. On Tuesday, the Nigerian military appointed a new commander, Maj. Gen. Abdulsalam Abubakar, in the fight against Boko Haram and the Islamic State West Africa Province insurgencies in the northeast, the spokesperson for the operation said in a statement.

Source: Africanews

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Terrible! Indian man arrested for beheading his 17-year-old daughter

Angella Semu
Civil rights group in India

NEW DELHI-(MaraviPost)-Police in India’s northern Uttar Pradesh state have arrested a man who confessed to beheading his teenage daughter.

The spokesperson for Hardoi Police confirmed the arrest.

According to the police spokesperson, Sarvesh Kumar was arrested on Wednesday night walking toward a police station in Hardoi district carrying the severed head of his 17-year-old daughter.

Report by Al Jazeera revealed that prior to the gruesome killing, Kumar’s daughter was seeing a young that her father didn’t like which angered him.

When Kumar returned home, he found his daughter alone at home, locked her in a room, and severed her head using a knife.

He reportedly took her head and Start walking towards police station to confess what he had done before local passersby alerted the police, who stopped him and apprehended him.

He is currently in custody and a list of charges will be compiled against him once the investigations have been completed.

Police said he will also have access to a public lawyer once he has been formally charged, and he will remain in custody until the trial.

According to statistics from the country’s National Crime Records Bureau, India recorded 24 honour killings in 2019. Two years earlier, Uttar Pradesh registered 14 of the country’s 92 such killing.

Human rights groups say thousands of women and girls are killed across South Asia and the Middle East each year by family members angered at perceived damage to their “honour”.

Last month, a woman was burned alive by family members over an interfaith relationship in Uttar Pradesh.