Lord Mandelson urged paedophile Jeffrey Epstein to ‘fight for early release’ when he was facing jail for child sex offences and assured him: ‘Your friends stay with you and love you.’
Bombshell new emails reveal Britain’s ambassador to the US assuring his ‘best pal’ Epstein just before he was convicted in 2008: ‘Everything can be turned into an opportunity.'
He told the warped financier – later found dead awaiting trial for molesting hundreds of schoolgirls – that ‘I think the world of you and I feel hopeless and furious about what has happened.
‘I can still barely understand it. It just could not happen in Britain. You have to be incredibly resilient, fight for early release and be philosophical about it as much as you can.’
The astonishing email, sent between the pair's private email addresses and revealed by The Sun, continued: ‘Everything can be turned into an opportunity and that you will come through it and be stronger for it.
