Alex Ritson

So he set about recreating the Alhambra in Morocco, and it took 1,300 craftsmen to build it over the course of three years.

I feel kind of silly asking this, but why would Epstein have wanted to buy it?

Morocco provides privacy and security, and there was quite a lot of haggling over the price.

It was initially valued at more than $65 million, but Jeffrey Epstein tried to make an arrangement to pay $15 million for the house and then a further $18 million.

for shares in an offshore company that owned the property.

This was probably to avoid having to pay tax on the property or to reduce that amount and he'd been trying to buy it since 2011 but financial institutions were tightening their grip on Epstein's activities.

He actually signed a wire transfer for $15 million for the house on 5 July 2019, the day before he was arrested, and he later was found dead in his prison cell the next month.

Now, Morocco has...

No extradition treaty with the United States, so it could have also been to avoid arrest.

But a former associate of Epstein said he had no idea that he was about to be detained.

As I say, Morocco has always been a haven for the rich and famous, former African leaders, and it's been described as a sunny place for shady people.

Richard Hamilton.

A British supermarket chain, Waitrose, has announced that it's suspending the sale of mackerel because of overfishing.

All fresh, chilled and frozen mackerel will no longer be sold and tinned mackerel stocks will not be replenished.

Retailers said the British government fishing quotas were still too high.

Charles Clover, who's the co-founder of the conservation charity Blue Marine Foundation, told us more about how mackerel stocks in the North Atlantic had plummeted in the last decade.

The mackerel has been a disaster waiting to happen for about a decade.

And now things are getting pretty grim.

And it's what politicians should really be worrying about.

It's down 75%.