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UK of ‘more interest’ in Epstein case Prince charity’s £355k payout broke law
PLOTS Charlie & brothers
BBC bosses are turning to garden makeover shows to fill up empty schedules because they are easy to film during lockdown.
A spin-off of BBC2’s Your House Made Perfect is being planned, in which the experts focus on the outside space.
And a Top of the Plots version of Charlie Dimmock’s Garden Rescue, will see her and the Rich brothers David and Harry provide quick makeovers.
A BBC source said: “Everyone is spending as much time as they can outdoors and, as it’s the easiest place to film safely, making more gardening shows was a no-brainer.”
TV bosses have a huge problem over the summer with hundreds of hours left empty by cancelled events including the Olympics, Wimbledon and the Euros.
MIRROR SOURCE ON EPSTEIN’S BEHAVIOUR
PRINCE Andrew’s charitable trust is to be wound up after it broke the law by paying a former trustee £355,000.
The Duke’s private secretary Amanda Thirsk received the cash for a five-year period working on three subsidiary organisations of the royal’s charitable body.
Ms Thirsk, 54, quit her role as a close adviser in the wake of Andrew’s disastrous Newsnight interview last November about his friendship with billionaire sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
The Charity Commission said in a statement yesterday it identified “issues of concern that required attention”.
The trustees of Andrew’s PACT charity
Amanda Thirsk said: “Former trustees of PACT, in post at the time, made a decision regarding the remuneration of Amanda Thirsk which inadvertently breached charity law.
“At no time before the Charity Commission’s involvement were the current trustees aware of restrictions concerning the remuneration of Amanda Thirsk for her role as a director of the trust’s subsidiary companies.”
PRINCE Andrew is one of four Brits the FBI wants to quiz about their relationship with the royal’s paedophile pal Jeffrey Epstein.
Agents have paid “increasing interest” in Epstein’s links to the UK after claims by two of his victims that girls were trafficked to and from here.
Other than the Duke of York, Epstein’s alleged “madam” Ghislaine Maxwell, 58, and two other British women are believed to have potentially helpful information.
A source said claims included “he was flying girls from the UK for him to abuse, as well as Virginia Giuffre’s allegation she was trafficked to London for sex”.
Giuffre has claimed in US court she was flown across the world by Epstein, including once, in March 2001, to have sex in London with the prince, who has vehemently denied her allegation.
Epstein victim Maria Farmer claimed he flew “at least two” girls to the US on his private jet, helped by a British woman she calls a “key co-conspirator”.
Epstein, 66, committed suicide in jail in August. He was being held on suspicion of trafficking underage girls for sex.
Andrew, 60, is said have had the least interaction with Epstein compared to the three women who spent years around the convicted sex offender. The source said: “Due to the embarrassment felt among law enforcement over how
Epstein escaped justice for so long, no stone is being unturned.”
Previously it was reported, the FBI is investigating
Maxwell and several other people linked to the financier.
Sources claim the principal focus of the probe is the British socialite and other “people who facilitated” Epstein’s allegedly illegal behaviour.
Maxwell, who has not been seen in public for several years, has not been accused of any criminal wrongdoing.
She has been accused in several civil cases in the US of acting as Epstein’s “madam”, which she has denied. The two other women are viewed purely as witnesses and both live in the UK.
The US Department of Justice has filed a Mutual Legal Assistance request to the British government. It is a bid to force the prince to supply a statement.
An MLA allows co-operation between countries when evidence needs to be gathered in a criminal investigation.
If approved by the Home Office, the FBI could ask Andrew, to go to a UK court to give evidence under oath as a witness.
The FBI declined to comment.
Andrew quizzed on TV about Epstein
Claims he was flying in girls from Britain so he could abuse them