ROCHDALE DETECTIVE CALLS FOR

‘More Brit victims can claim compo’

THE detective who helped expose one of Britain’s worst paedophile scandals today demands a police investigation into Prince Andrew’s links with Ghislaine Maxwell.

Rochdale whistleblower Maggie Oliver says the Prince should be quizzed after the arrest of his friend Maxwell in America this week on child sex trafficking charges. Maxwell denies all charges.

The ex-detective constable’s demand came as legal experts claimed Scotland Yard had no grounds to suddenly drop a 2016 probe involving Jeffrey Epstein alleged sex slave Virginia Giuffre.

Giuffre claimed she was trafficked to the UK by financier Epstein and his ex-lover Maxwell, where they allegedly forced her to have sex with Prince Andrew at the age of 17 in 2001.

The Prince has always strenuously denied any wrongdoing. And in an infamous interview with Newsnight’s Emily Maitlis he claimed he had no recollection of Ms Giuffre, now 36 – even though he has been photographed with her.

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But Maggie – who quit Greater Manchester Police to expose the force’s poor handling of the Rochdale child sex abuse probe – said: “I absolutely think he should be questioned.

“I don’t believe for a single moment this was investigated fully and that the police could do nothing about it.

“Everyone is innocent until proven guilty, but the fact he [Prince Andrew] hasn’t been interviewed under caution suggests to me special treatment.

“I’ve listened to Virginia’s interviews and I don’t believe she wasn’t credible and didn’t have evidence to back up what she is saying. The establishment protects the establishment. At the very least, it’s coincidental.

“At the worst, it’s corruption at the highest level. When the authorities chose not to even investigate these crimes, the message that goes out to victims is they don’t matter.

“In many respects, this is worse than the abuse itself.”

The Metropolitan Police dropped their probe into Ms Giuffre’s claims on the grounds most of her complaint related to allegations of abuse in other countries.

But legal experts say there was then a UK law in place that made it a criminal offence for a person to procure a girl under 21 for unlawful sexual intercourse

MYSTERY

RICHES Ghislaine & dad Robert, 1984 in any part of the world. And although the Sexual Offences Act of 1956 has now largely been replaced with more modern laws on trafficking and sex abuse, it would still apply to cases dating back to when it was in force.

The Met dropped the case only three years before Epstein, 66, took his own life in a New York prison cell while awaiting

The fact he hasn’t been questioned suggests special treatment

ON DROPPED CASE MYSTERY

GHISLAINE Maxwell is facing life behind bars if found guilty of sex trafficking charges.

The British socialite, 58, was arrested at her hideaway in New Hampshire on Thursday in a spectacular fall from grace.

The daughter of disgraced media mogul Robert Maxwell and wife Elisabeth, she was educated at exclusive Marlborough College,

Prince with his arm round Giuffre as arrested pal Maxwell looks on

ABUSE COP MAGGIE