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AMW arrested …

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fairmaidofutopia · 19/02/2026 10:01

At last …. 😊

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hedgeknight · 19/02/2026 10:35

Ihateboris · 19/02/2026 10:31

It's a bloody good start though..Don’t you agree?

As is often said, Capone got convicted on tax evasion.

LostThestral · 19/02/2026 10:35

JSMill · 19/02/2026 10:16

He’s been arrested and is in police custody. He’s not just answering some questions. They must feel they have sufficient evidence to charge him with something. I bet the arresting officer enjoyed every minute of it!

completely agree, surely they wouldn't arrest without a good amount of evidence already, imagine the fall out if they did!

MrsLeonFarrell · 19/02/2026 10:35

The BBC has some interesting information about why they have arrested him and what that now gives the police access to.

Doseofreality · 19/02/2026 10:35

It’s what this Country needs. Nothing will unite us all more than seeing the corrupt sweaty nonce charged, tried, convicted and sent to a Prison up North.
i propose a Bank Holiday and Street Parties when that happens.

Pedallleur · 19/02/2026 10:35

There were reasons those records were sealed. I wonder who will pay for his legal advice. The King, his brother or some overseas friend? What would the late Queen have done (God bless her!!).

MrsLeonFarrell · 19/02/2026 10:36

BBC also saying that discussions around it now need to be careful because of the possibility of a trial. I expect the media to be extremely circumspect in their reporting.

simpsonthecat · 19/02/2026 10:36

He will have had warning that they will be turning up. He was probably sat having a coffee with his legal team.

It's hardly likely that police would be using that battering ram thingy to knock down the front door.

He will not be treated the same as everyone else that's for sure.

likelysuspect · 19/02/2026 10:36

RainbowBagels · 19/02/2026 10:29

They must have been extremely ignorant of what he was doing when he was inviting streams of young girls into the Palace, to Balmoral, Sandringham snd sex offenders to his daughters birthday party! They are either a close family or they aren't. They cant be one thing for PR photo opportunities and barely speak to each other from one decade to the next when it comes to plausible deniability. They will need a Spanish RF style shakedown after this, id imagine, and it serves them all right.

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Of course they're not a close family, do they seem like a close family to you?

SomedayIllBeSaturdayNight · 19/02/2026 10:37

sesquipedalian · 19/02/2026 10:32

Whatever Andrew may or may not have done, I really don’t think he can be accused of trafficking. He’s an entitled buffoon, and in his younger days was used to girls throwing themselves at him, and it probably wouldn’t have crossed his tiny mind that any of the girld were anything other than delighted to be with him. Passing on confidential government information, however, is an entirely different matter (and also far easier to prove - suspicion doesn’t cut it in court). Mandelson has to be next.

Great post, totally agree.

Bigwhyfronts · 19/02/2026 10:37

I hope this is the entry charge as presumably there is irrefutable evidence, hopefully this will force access to lots of other evidence and questioning under caution which Andrew has managed to avoid for all the other accusations.

CurlewKate · 19/02/2026 10:37

So good at “soft diplomacy” the RF. Positively vital in the running of the country.

Craftysue · 19/02/2026 10:37

I think the police must have had some evidence of wrongdoing before they arrested him and they are apparently searching property in Norfolk and Berkshire too. Good. I have absolutely no sympathy for this greedy, entitled man

simpsonthecat · 19/02/2026 10:38

Pedallleur · 19/02/2026 10:35

There were reasons those records were sealed. I wonder who will pay for his legal advice. The King, his brother or some overseas friend? What would the late Queen have done (God bless her!!).

The late Queen is responsible for a lot of this, no god bless her from me, and she paid hundreds of thousands for his legal teams in the US and UK when Guiffre was pursuing him.

simpsonthecat · 19/02/2026 10:38

CurlewKate · 19/02/2026 10:37

So good at “soft diplomacy” the RF. Positively vital in the running of the country.

😂😂

I think the Palace need to retire the 'soft diplomacy' phrase for now!

canisquaeso · 19/02/2026 10:39

Nothing will come of it but at least let us enjoy the slight humiliation it will bring.

Alltheprettyseahorses · 19/02/2026 10:39

Long overdue. Lol, it's his birthday too. At least this means fewer tedious planted squirrel threads about how awful Meghan and Harry are.

JustAnotherWhinger · 19/02/2026 10:40

This is great news.

Misconduct in a public office might actually be more likely to see him convicted than anything related to his hideous behaviour toward women.

With sex trafficking would be incredibly difficult to prove that he had any knowledge that the women were trafficked. And unless they can find proof of sex with anyone under 16 they’ll not get him on the minor aspect (as vile as someone his age having sex with 17 year olds is it’s not actually illegal).

Misconduct in a public office also carries some hefty sentences - it’s not a light charge if he faces charges of that.

I bet there are a fair number of people who thought their positions and/or titles made them untouchable sweating a bit today!

southerngirl10 · 19/02/2026 10:40

Scapegoat

minou123 · 19/02/2026 10:40

simpsonthecat · 19/02/2026 10:38

The late Queen is responsible for a lot of this, no god bless her from me, and she paid hundreds of thousands for his legal teams in the US and UK when Guiffre was pursuing him.

I said this on the other thread......

Who is going to pay for his legal team now?
Presumably he does not qualify for legal aid? (Just kidding)

VaxMerstappen · 19/02/2026 10:40

I propose that if he is convicted, part of his sentence should be that he's put in stocks and taken around the country so we all have ample opportunity to throw custard pies and rotten fruit at him. No less than the sweaty nonce deserves.

likelysuspect · 19/02/2026 10:40

LizzieSiddal · 19/02/2026 10:31

Ok I could correct that to recent history.
Lord Louis Mountbatten got away with child sex offences.

However are you honestly saying royals and their supporters have never got away with crimes others would have been in serious trouble for?

What child sex offences?

I dont follow them so dont really know about any hangers on, I suspect the in laws/cousins aristos have quite chequered criminal records, tax evasion, assaults, drug crimes, various crimes. It wouldnt surprise me

I dont dispute there is more likelihood of them disguising crimes and getting away with stuff but there is a strange mentality in some of the publice, perhaps you're one of them, that posh or rich people never get done for crimes, they do.

User9767475 · 19/02/2026 10:41

I remember reading something about how being on trial for one crime means you can't actively be charged with another? Or you cannot be trialled for the same crime twice? If the premises is "Epstein related activities" then they would argue he cannot be trialled again for things inside the Epstein files.

So if this progress to a certain point, would that mean he actually gets immunity from the really sordid crimes with photographic evidence?! This entire thing is sounding more like a pre-orchestrated PR stunt to give him the easiest way out. He's already living in isolation so a few months of house arrest makes no difference. They are definitely not going to give him a life sentence or put him jail.

AutumnedCrow · 19/02/2026 10:42

RainbowBagels · 19/02/2026 10:20

How annoying I gave up Mumsnet for Lent and then this happens!
Bloody hell Ive never been happier to be proved wrong! I dont see how they can keep the trade envoy files sealed now. If there is evidence of criminal activity in them it looks like, instead of investigating them at the time, they were sealed for 100 years. This needs to be investigated too.

That is a bloody good point about the Trade Envoy papers.

On Lent sacrifices, I feel ill-equipped to comment.

likelysuspect · 19/02/2026 10:42

sprigatito · 19/02/2026 10:32

I think he’s been arrested on the slightly blander (but still quite hefty!) offence of MIAPO, but they will be using the opportunity of having him in custody to question him intensively about the trafficking via Stansted etc. I think he’s comprehensively fucked this time tbh.

Can they question you in custody about something they havent arrested you for?

TeeBee · 19/02/2026 10:42

MrsLeonFarrell · 19/02/2026 10:03

It's interesting and it feels a bit like Al Capone going down for tax evasion in some ways.

Exactly! More will come out but at least this is a start.

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