Martin Brunt

But the police here have only what you and I have read, if we've got the time to trawl through them.

And a lot of those documents are redacted

And the police have made it clear it would be enormously helpful to their investigation if they can get hold of the unredacted documents that they know exist.

It's understood that so far they haven't been given any of those, but they are, you know, talking to the Department of Justice in the States and hopeful that at some stage.

But they they continue to say that this is a very complex case.

investigation and it's likely to go on for some time.

And I'll give you an indication of how complex it is.

The police and the Crown Prosecution Service here have still to decide whether the role of trade envoy is a public office under the law and whether Prince Andrew as a UK trade envoy was subject to

to the law of misconduct in public office.

I mean, it's three months on and they still haven't decided, you know, whether he is a suspect who can be tackled over these issues.

Good morning, Claire.

They are.

I mean, I suppose what it signals is a potential expansion of the police investigation.

But in some respects, it hasn't changed because what we're discovering, I suppose, and what the police are keen to emphasise is that in the allegation of misconduct in public office,

That's not at all in any way restricted to financial crimes or the original allegation that the former prince handed over government documents or sensitive commercial information.

to Jeffrey Epstein in his role as a trade envoy.

Misconduct in public office can cover all sorts of allegations, including sex offences, fraud, corruption, perverting the course of justice and other crimes.

It's not limited in the way that some people think.

And the reason I suppose police have come out and are keen to explain this is that they think some potential victims might be put off when they read that allegation of misconduct in public office, that it is a very narrow crime on the statute book.

So I think from day one, from his arrest,