Peter Mandelson, whose left red-faced after the extent of his friendship to disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, thinks that his former friend could have been murdered in jail
Lord Peter Mandelson has suggested that billionaire paedophile Jeffrey Epstein could have been murdered in jail. In an interview, the Ambassador to the US said he didn’t know “whether he was murdered or whether it was a suicide.”
Epstein was found hanging in his New York jail back in 2019, according to the US government. However, since his death, several theories have suggested over the years that the disgraced financier was silenced before blowing the whistle on a powerful ring of sex offenders.
Lord Mandelson, Epstein’s former pal, was asked in the Harry Cole Saves the West podcast if there was “any reason to believe that Epstein’s death was anything other than suicide?”
In reply he said: “I honestly have not the faintest idea how he died, whether he was murdered or whether it was a suicide. All I know is that, with all the information that we have about this dreadful, dreadful man.
“I wish that I could remove that lot. I think he is like, he’s like a piece of muck attached to my shoes, which I find it very difficult to kick away.”
He added: “But I will do it. I will do it, but I can only do it by first of all acknowledging how much I regret ever having met him in the first place, and how much I regret deeply continuing association with him.”
It comes as Lord Mandelson admitted more “embarrassing” exchanges with paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein may emerge soon, after a 2003 birthday message was published where he called the sex abuser his “best pal”.
The UK ambassador to the US now fears more scandalous notes are in the pipeline.
He said: “We know they’re going to surface, we know they’re going to come out, they’re going to be embarrassing.”
He regrets “very, very deeply indeed carrying on” the association with Epstein “for far longer than I should have done”, adding he does not believe he is “named in the Epstein files”.
The politician said that Epstein never introduced him to women, saying “perhaps it’s because I’m a gay man”.
Sir Keir Starmer yesterday backed Lord Mandelson at Prime Minister’s Questions.
Tory leader Kemi Badenoch grilled him over the ambassador’s appointment and asked: “Will he actually instruct Peter Mandelson to publish all his correspondence with Jeffrey Epstein?”
Sir Keir insisted the vetting process was done carefully and said the publication of documents was “subject to the usual procedures.”
He added Lord Mandelson had “repeatedly expressed his deep regret” for his friendship with Epstein, and had been “right to do so”.
US lawmakers released a 2003 “birthday book” which was compiled by convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell in which Lord Mandelson gushed about Epstein in a handwritten note.
He has since claimed that he was duped by the millionaire and said his association with him has been “an albatross around my neck”.
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