Andy Hughes

also him being at Epstein's mansion in Manhattan and also them being at Epstein's Island.

Don't you find it astonishing that none of these Royal Protection Officers seemingly saw anything suspicious?

Yeah, but there was young women at all these properties, is the point, and underage women.

That's exactly what he said.

He said it's their job to enforce the law.

If they saw anything illegal, then they would have to report it.

There are several occasions, he says, where you will see a principal doing something immoral, but they're not the moral police.

They can't do anything.

He said that he's known of principals on the ministerial side and the royalty side having affairs, for example, where the close protection team know about this affair, but the family...

Well, I mean, you could probably hear my...

kind of astonishment and bafflement as to when he was saying to me that he didn't know, or sorry, that Prince Andrew's protection team didn't know who Jeffrey Epstein was because two years previously he was convicted and it was widely reported.

And especially given your interview in 2019 with Prince Andrew when he admitted that he knew that Epstein was a convicted paedophile and the purpose of that visit was to personally terminate that friendship.

Well, Scott wasn't there on that occasion.

But a year later, he was when he had to check if her property was safe.

This was in central London.

He walked in and Ghislaine Maxwell was there.

He knew her because of how her father died.

So he was a very famous person, of course.

But he said how it would have worked is they would have gone in.

If the property's safe and the people there, there's no concerns about them.