Leaked emails suggest Andrew passed accuser’s details to Met bodyguard hours before bombshell photo came to light
The Metropolitan police are looking into claims that Prince Andrew asked his taxpayer-funded close protection officer to uncover information about Virginia Giuffre hours before the emergence of a bombshell picture of them together.
Leaked emails that suggest Andrew passed his Met bodyguard Giuffre’s date of birth and confidential US social security number were “deeply concerning”, said a government minister on Sunday.
Ed Miliband, the energy secretary, told broadcasters the allegations should be investigated as it was “absolutely not the way that close protection officers should be used”.
The Mail on Sunday published messages Andrew allegedly sent to Ed Perkins, then the queen’s deputy press secretary, in 2011 saying he had asked one of his close protection officers to obtain information about Giuffre.
