Prince Andrew remained in contact with paedophile Jeffrey Epstein five years longer than he claimed, according to recently unearthed emails.

Correspondence in late 2015 between the American financier and former Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak, in which the Duke of York is namechecked, was today published by The Sunday Times.

In the exchange, Epstein suggests there is a potential business opportunity in China for a personal protection company.

When asked by Barak where the information had come from, Epstein responded 'andrew'. Barak then says if that was 'The Prince', to which the convicted paedophile said: 'yes.'

It throws into doubt Andrew's claim to Emily Maitlis in the disastrous 2019 Newsnight grilling that he had stopped seeing Epstein in early December 2010, when they were photographed walking through New York's Central Park.