Prince (not) Andrew arrested.

[Happyjoe]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c70kjr9wjw0t

Nice to see nobody is above the law, what an embarrassment!

And what a b'day surprise that must've been for him...

The BBC have just said that Buckingham palace and the King were not told in advance about Andrew’s arrest, which is interesting.

They had some ex policeman saying they would tell the PM, no idea if true. Which makes sense after the PM was filmed saying about nobody is above the law today? Or yesterday, not sure.

He's been arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office, ie sharing sensitive information with Epstein. I doubt any police officers would have been aware of the content of his emails.

This:

It's just laborious expensive work but there's little chance of permanently getting rid of something from a device.

The BBC really should tell us the increase in licence fee is due to investment in part 2 of Emily Maitlis interviewing the honourable A #Imworthit M-W in custody.

Accuracy is important and peddling this load of crap is not accurate. When the poor victim went missing The Andrew Formerly Known as Prince was at Balmoral in front of many witnesses. She was found at Sandringham a good while later, over a mile from the main house and therefore nowhere near TAFKP's mansion which is in a different county, the other side of London. Police arrested two men but unfortunately did not have enough evidence to charge them. She was most likely murdered elsewhere and dumped in the middle of nowhere. Sandringham estate is vast and crossed by several public roads. Anybody can go there.
I am sure we all hope that TAFKP is charged with many reprehensible things and then duly convicted. Muddying the process with nonsense is not going to help. Please stop.

Anne must have been convicted under the dangerous dogs act without being arrested for that to be true - I genuinely have no idea if that’s possible, maybe it is because she admitted it?

The BBC did also say he’d be the first royal in court which is incorrect so I’m not entirely sure how accurate they are on this one.

Someone was saying that he could get away with it by sayingvhe wasnt in ' public office' but he was a working member of the RF who had been given a role, and was apparently being 'paid' by QEII. So again, how can the Royals say they are not a 'public office" while they take taxpayers money on that basis and they were paying him to do that job? If AMW uses that defence its evidence of yet more ' too complicated' arrangements the Royals have where they are one thing when it suits them and another thing when it doesnt. Time we found out exactly who was involved in all this by releasing the TE documents. I suspect there is an awful lot in them about QEII ignoring warnings and advice re AMW in this role.

I wish Virginia Giuffre were here to see this moment.

The statement from her family was very moving, let's hope he actually does face justice.

I know that actually, hence ‘just’ being in inverted commas. I should have been clearer about that. I was meaning in the event it was ‘just’ about misconduct in public office and not about rape/SA.

I think it will be some form of justice for the Epstein survivors if he gets convicted of misconduct and has to go to jail. Or even face the humiliation of being put on trial in this country.

However, I wonder whether AMW will be persuaded to reveal all about Epstein in exchange for lesser charges pertaining to misconduct charges? Will Mandelson, who I’m sure knows more than he says about Epstein’s activities?

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.

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

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.

This!

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

easier to prove,

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.

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!

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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