LONDON (AP) 鈥� Police in the UK say they are investigating two allegations of decades-old child sex abuse after looking into potential crimes revealed in documents from the U.S. Justice Department鈥檚 investigation into the convicted .
Police in Surrey, the county immediately southwest of London, said in a statement Tuesday that they are investigating two separate allegations. One relates to locations in Surrey and Berkshire in the mid-1990s to 2000. The other relates to the mid- to late 1980s in West Surrey.
No arrests have been made.
鈥淲e take all reports of sexual offending seriously and will work to identify any reasonable lines of enquiry to verify information or establish corroborating evidence,鈥欌�� police said in a statement.
Surrey is among several U.K. police forces that have worked together to assess potential crimes revealed in documents linked to the late financier and sex offender. The National Police Chiefs鈥� Council, which brings together police leaders from across the U.K., said in February that it had set up a national coordination group to support forces looking into issues arising from the more than released earlier this year.
While the council didn鈥檛 specify the police forces involved in the effort, at least eight have said they are 鈥渁ssessing鈥� information in the files. They are looking into issues ranging from concerns that Epstein鈥檚 private jet may have been used in sex trafficking to allegations that the former Prince Andrew to the financier when he was Britain鈥檚 international trade envoy.
The Epstein scandal has and British politics in recent months because of his links to , the U.K.鈥檚 former ambassador to Washington, and to the former prince, now known as Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor.
King Charles III in October of his royal titles, including the right to be called a prince, in an effort to insulate the royal family from the continuing revelations about his friendship with Epstein.
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