Former Prince Andrew launches challenge to ‘quash’ police search warrants

A London tribunal is apt to clasp a backstage proceeding connected Thursday arsenic Mountbatten-Windsor challenges Thames Valley Police.

Former British Prince Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor has launched a High Court situation to “quash hunt warrants” obtained by the constabulary earlier his apprehension earlier this year.

The judiciary confirmed connected Monday that a London tribunal is apt to clasp a backstage proceeding connected Thursday arsenic Mountbatten-Windsor challenges Thames Valley Police implicit searches of his erstwhile homes connected royal estates.

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The disgraced royal was arrested connected February 19 connected suspicion of misconduct successful nationalist bureau pursuing allegations that helium shared delicate accusation with the precocious American enactment offender Jeffrey Epstein during his clip arsenic the United Kingdom’s commercialized envoy.

While helium was released aboriginal that day, the 66-year-old remains nether investigation. Mountbatten-Windsor has denied wrongdoing.

Mountbatten-Windsor was stripped of his royal titles past twelvemonth pursuing his connections to Epstein, who died successful a situation successful New York, United States, successful August 2019.

Officers searched Mountbatten-Windsor’s location connected the distant Sandringham royal property successful eastbound England and his erstwhile Royal Lodge residence successful Windsor, westbound of London.

The judiciary’s property bureau said the lawsuit acrophobic an exertion by Mountbatten-Windsor for a “judicial reappraisal to quash hunt warrants issued by a justice astatine the Central Criminal Court connected February 18, 2026”.

It said Thursday’s proceeding was astir an exertion by Thames Valley Police to restrict entree to tribunal documents successful the matter.

“Whilst our probe into misconduct successful nationalist bureau continues, we are engaged successful ineligible proceedings successful narration to warrants antecedently obtained from the Central Criminal Court,” the constabulary said successful a statement.

“As these ineligible proceedings are presently ongoing, it would beryllium inappropriate for america to remark further.”