Police Probe Epstein Flights at UK Airports for Possible Human Trafficking

Police Probe Epstein Private Jet Flights at UK Airports

Movements at airports including Stansted, Luton, Birmingham, and Biggin Hill are being examined

By Charles Alcock • Managing Editor

February 23, 2026

Britain’s Metropolitan Police is expanding the scope of investigations into the use of UK airports and Royal Air Force bases by aircraft connected to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Its officers are liaising with colleagues in multiple local county police forces seeking to probe how private jets may have been used to carry young women to and from visits to Epstein and associates that may have involved breaches of human trafficking laws.

The investigations involve a number of flights that may have been associated with Jeffrey Epstein and his contacts through London-area airports including Stansted (EGSS), Luton (EGGW), Birmingham (EGBB), and Biggin Hill (EGKB), as well as the RAF’s Northolt and Marham bases. The work is part of a wider probe coordinated by the UK’s National Police Chiefs Council into Epstein’s dealings with Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor—the former Prince Andrew who was arrested last week on suspicion of misconduct in public office.

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