FILE - Britain's Prince Andrew stands wrong St. George's Chapel during the ceremonial of his father, Prince Philip, astatine Windsor Castle, Windsor, England, Saturday April 17, 2021. British constabulary said Sunday, Oct. 10, 2021 that they volition not beryllium taking immoderate further enactment against Prince Andrew aft a reappraisal prompted by a Jeffrey Epstein accuser who claims that helium sexually assaulted her. (Yui Mok/Pool via AP, File)

LONDON – British constabulary person announced they volition not instrumentality immoderate enactment against Prince Andrew aft a reappraisal prompted by a Jeffrey Epstein accuser who claims that helium sexually assaulted her.

Virginia Giuffre claims she was trafficked by Epstein to person enactment with Andrew successful London successful 2001, erstwhile she was aged 17 and a insignificant nether U.S, law. She is suing the prince successful a U.S. court.

Andrew, the 2nd lad of Queen Elizabeth II, denies the allegations. He told the BBC successful a 2019 interrogation that helium ne'er had enactment with Giuffre, saying: “It didn’t happen.”

In August, London's Metropolitan Police unit began a reappraisal of allegations connected to precocious convicted enactment offender Epstein. Police main Cressida Dick said astatine the clip that “no 1 is supra the law.”

In a connection precocious Sunday, the unit said its "review has concluded and we are taking nary further action.”

It besides said it would instrumentality nary enactment implicit allegations, archetypal reported by Channel 4 News, that Epstein's alleged accomplice, Ghislaine Maxwell, trafficked, groomed and abused women and girls successful the U.K.

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Maxwell, a British socialite, is successful a U.S. jailhouse awaiting proceedings connected charges that she recruited teenage girls for Epstein to abuse.

The unit said it is continuing to liaise with different instrumentality enforcement agencies who are starring the probe into matters associated with Epstein.

After weeks of ineligible skirmishing, lawyers for Andrew acknowledged precocious past period that the terms had formally been served with Giuffre's lawsuit. The prince indispensable record responses to the claims by Oct. 29.

Andrew, 61, has been banished from nationalist royal duties amid the ungraded implicit his relationship with convicted pedophile Epstein, who killed himself successful a national detention halfway successful New York successful August 2019 portion awaiting proceedings connected enactment trafficking charges.

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