Essex Police has said it is assessing information about private flights into and out of Stansted Airport following the publication of the Epstein files.

Ex-Prime Minister Gordon Brown wrote in the New Statesman last week that police "urgently" need to re-examine whether Jeffrey Epstein's victims were trafficked within and outside of the UK.

Last year a BBC investigation found 87 flights linked to the convicted sex offender had arrived at or departed from UK airports between the early 1990s and 2018.

Stansted Airport has previously said all private aircraft are operated entirely independently, and that the airport does not manage passenger arrangements on privately operated aircraft.

An Essex Police spokesperson said: "We are assessing the information that has emerged in relation to private flights into and out of Stansted Airport following the publication of the US DoJ Epstein files."