EYEWITNESS FBI TURNED DOWN

SO FAR only one person has come forward to state publicly that they saw Prince Andrew dancing with Virginia Roberts in Tramp on the night of March 10, 2001.

In August of this year, more than 19 years after they allegedly shared the dancefloor, a London businesswoman gave an account of what she saw.

Somali-born Shukri Walker (pictured) — also known as Shukri Mohamed — said she had decided to speak out after seeing the Duke’s Newsnight denials. She told the Sun in a front-page ‘exclusive’ story that she had also been in Tramp on the night in question and claimed to remember the Duke — and in considerable detail. In fact, she claimed she had trodden on his foot on the dancefloor. Andrew had said ‘No problem’ when she apologised.

She reportedly recalled: ‘He looked like he was having a great time. And he was with this young girl who was close to my own age, perhaps even a bit younger than me.’ (Records suggest Ms Shukri was around 28 at the time.) The young woman ‘wasn’t smiling, it was the opposite of smiles’. Ms Walker added: ‘They were with the woman who has just been arrested, Ghislaine Maxwell, and Epstein. I will never forget the night because I was told this is a real Prince.’ Andrew wiped the back of his hand across his face several times, she claimed. Her lawyer told the Sun that they had offered her testimony to the FBI, but it had been politely declined. When approached by the Mail at her home in north London, Ms Walker told us: ‘I am a sex-trafficking victim.’ She claimed journalists hadn’t ( previously) ‘wanted to know’ her story. The Mail was then contacted by an American law firm which is representing Ms Walker — as well as a number of Epstein’s alleged victims. A spokeswoman for the firm said: ‘She is holding off on any more interviews at this time.’