Prince (not) Andrew arrested.

Life on Mars

The police must be relieved that they are looking for information and evidence of specific crimes. They will see both ends of financial transactions. They can look at everything that the accused person has. Paper and electronics can all be searched and no danger of a "Carl Beech" involvement.
They may also find intelligence if not court quality evidence of other crimes involving other players perhaps in other jurisdictions. It will all be grist to the mill.

Please take the Duchess of Pork and the two ugly sisters with him 🙏

Me too. Reading between the lines I think KC might be glad the police have taken action. AMW must be that family member you just wish would go away.

I hope that other people who are alleged to have been part of this are also properly investigated and if appropriate arrested, not just the King's Brother and the former ambassador to the US.

There are unrelated to Epstein several others who should be investigated, such as those who covered up and did not investigate Jimmy Savile's crimes, and several ministers' actions in 2020 and 2021 re Covid contracts and other behaviour.

They should switch off the audio and video recording in the interview room and just kick the fuck out of him.

Love a bit of violence when justified.

Good news.
So maybe a new episode of 24 Hours in Police Custody coming our way?

Brilliant 😂

Bet he’s being arrogant and smug and entitled and is a right royal pain to deal with

This is a rather poor way to look at it.

It's not that we're "fine" with AMW having sex with trafficked girls, it's that - as far as we know at time of writing - there is little hard proof of that beyond he said / she said and innuendos in emails. A number of people involved are now deceased. Securing a conviction on this basis would be nigh on impossible.

It is going to be orders of magnitude more difficult to convict him of a sexual offence than it would be for this where the evidence is (apparently) from the horses mouth by way of his own emails.

Unless video footage is found or some sort of inadvertent confession from Andrew e.g. by way of an old email, I think it highly unlikely any prosecution for a sexual offence would even make it to court, let alone succeed.

None of that means what he did was OK.

If he thinks this is bad, wait till the other charges surface!

Absolutely this.

People seem to confuse the difference between a sex worker who chooses that path and women, of any age who are trafficked.

Those young women were not sex workers they were slaves.

If AMW isn’t a Mason, I bet he wished he was now. It would definitely be quietly dropped and go away then.

Lets hope this doesn't all end up being quietly dropped.

Unfortunately, there are some people who are most definitely 'above the law'.

Even if he is convicted he won't end up in a regular prison and be treated like a 'common' prisoner.

Any sexual activity with a trafficked person is rape - trafficked people cannot give consent, because they’ve been trafficked. They are not there of their own volition and age is irrelevant and they’ve not made the choice to be a sex worker.

If he had sexual activity in the UK with VG and/or anyone else trafficked by Epstein (and/ or anyone else) it was rape.

My hope is that in investigating the issue he’s been arrested for concerning his trade envoy actions the police will find further evidence of far worse crimes. Perhaps he will try to protect himself and throw everyone else under the bus.

In this, as I have said before, they have our full and wholehearted support and co-operation.
Let me state clearly: the law must take its course.

Wholehearted support. Clear statement from Charles here I‘m impressed.

Thankfully he is not above the law unlike the American cohort of Epstein vile creatures.

Not the best way to spend your 66th birthday though - expect he thought those days were gone.

He will hate having to be told what to do, no choices at all, and being questioned.

I would have bought him this particular birthday gift if I could I think!

Always a game for the lawyers. However, I think if AMW got away with it due to ‘not being in public office’ there would be an outcry about the RF.

I think they don’t ask questions in Parliament about the RF but I think some would risk breach of that - or find ways around it - maybe Sinn Fein could comment as they don’t swear allegiance?!

Interesting times, though we must remember it is founded on most distressing and abhorrent abuses across decades.

easier to prove,

And he went to boarding school. I’ve heard lots of ex public school boys say that prison was no worse…

This!

100% right.
And can we also have appropriate investigations into Lord Mandelson while we're at it? There seem to be similarities between him and AMW re the "public office" issues.

Pizza Express Kings Lynn have reported a birthday dinner for four cancelled at short notice.

I keep seeing people saying this. It is worth mentioning, he’s arrested for passing government secrets. Apparently we are fine with people having sex with trafficked girls, but if they tell finance bros confidential information about investment opportunities in South East Asia, we won’t stand for that.