I'm not British but I'm also very surprised. I can't help but wonder if they would have dared had he still had his title?

on his birthday too.

The cops took the phrase "the icing on the cake" literally, and I think it was an excellent choice.

The late queen's protection of him was a blemish on her record. I'm happy the king has cut him loose to face consequences..... I wonder if they asked him before the arrest...

Blame Queen Elizabeth. She was more interested in preserving the monarchy than Andrew's victims. There has to be a better way to promote tourism.

Got to have a couple of examples of the rich and powerful going away for their crimes so the plebs don't realise how stacked against them the system really is.

Arrested on his birthday too

surprise muthafucka

As an American citizen I'm wildly jealous.

The evidence is right there and we're the only ones that don't seem to give a s***.

Arrested on his birthday too.

Love seeing this creep go down.

Well actually it was the taxpayer that had 12 million quid, then gave it to a sweaty nonce for some ungodly reason

Especially a rich white person

Because the other rich powerful cunts already decided they don't care about him

That was probably the best angle to start an in-depth investigation into his dealings with Epstein. Evidence that comes to light during that investigation can still be used for additional charges.

Because even in the Epstein files most people aren't saying "ay Jeff, cheers for the fifteen year-old lasses we all shagged, see you next time," but they are saying "here are the minutes of the cabinet meeting/this is what the prime minister thinks about regulating your company/this is the most he's willing to give you a tax break for" in emails because that stuff had to be communicated somehow.

We can all see that Andrew probably committed some sex crimes. But being a suspicious creepy fucker, being accused, and having a photo of you crouching over a girl would not be enough evidence to get you or me charged with a crime either. The counterweight to "nobody is above the law" is "nobody shall be convicted except on the evidence."

Across the pond, whenever they'd get a big Mafia don, usually it wasn't because of all the bodies in the river wearing concrete shoes. Usually, it was due to unpaid taxes or some white-collar bullshit. I guess they take what they can get?

Unfortunately, I fear most of the fallout from this will be that we “know” what some people did, but few will actually be held legally responsible. There’s the bar of proof that satisfies the public (the “sniff test?”), and what’s required for a conviction in court. In the end, any punishment is better than none. One up side could be that, because of what the public “knows” happened, those that are punished will hopefully be unlikely to see any lenience in sentencing. Not hopeful after seeing Maxwell’s treatment, but early days.

They probably have to start small, it's unprecedented territory, and they'd want the proper charges to stick. I expect this also opens up the door to evidence gathering for the bigger charges.

CPS generally charges what they can reasonably prove.

*and since he's high profile I expect (hope) they aren't going to fuck it up. get him for something like this, maybe it opens the doors to further charges. Anyway, living in hope.

We can hope Mandelson is next, he shared information with Epstein too if I recall.

They never go down for their worst crimes. Usually they are guilty of horrible things, killing people with greed and knowing lies, but get taken down with sex scandals. So when it's an actual sex scandal I'm not surprised it's some other thing.

I think because other connected people don't want to be implicated, so they make sure the person is convicted on something unrelated and use their influence to keep the charges off the larger issue perhaps. Never more true than with this case, they are all implicated. Who is they? Every swell in the US and UK apparently. Just presume anyone in the US that went to the ivy league and was in a private club hung out with epstein. (Private clubs started after civil rights triumphed, when they had to start taking in deserving poor and minorities, they started the clubs to differentiate between the aristocracy that almost exclusively runs our business and government, and the dirty charity cases.)

There has been a significant development in that case, so that’s what they’re investigating.

Someone on bluesky said that SCOTUS has made American presidents less accountable than British monarchs

Note that he didn't got arrested for the pedophilia part.

Also, this being Britain, best wait until the end of the trial to see if he gets convicted and if the sentence is in line with that for similar situations

When comes to nobles over there using the Justice System as a form of whitewash is pretty standard: there's this story of some Peer getting convicted for a second time for Fraud and the high court judge letting him go without any penalty saying that "the shame of a conviction is enough".

He's being arrested for sharing official documents. Not the disgusting crimes he committed against children and/or women. It's not real accountability, it's theater meant to placate the angry masses.

Many Democrats have been arrested. The fascist political persecution is already in full swing.

I think you play by different rules. The more mentioned points system means you get more protection in your version.

You have to start by removing his title.

Lol, no. Trump isn't going to be prosecuted for mishandling government documents. Again.

trump/fElon should both be in prison right now, but I dont see it happening