Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor challenges police search warrants in High Court
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Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor has asked Britain’s High Court to quash search warrants obtained by Thames Valley Police before his arrest in February, the judiciary confirmed Monday.
A private hearing is scheduled for Thursday. According to the judiciary, the case seeks judicial review of warrants issued by a Central Criminal Court judge on February 18. Thursday’s hearing will address a police application to restrict access to court documents.
Police arrested Andrew, 66, on February 19 on suspicion of misconduct in public office related to his links to the late U.S. sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. He was released later that day and remains under investigation. Andrew has denied wrongdoing.
Officers searched his home on the Sandringham estate in eastern England and his former residence, Royal Lodge, in Windsor. Thames Valley Police said its investigation was continuing and declined further comment because of the legal proceedings.
Andrew, King Charles III’s brother, was stripped of his royal titles last year over his connections to Epstein. His legal team is challenging whether the warrants authorizing the searches were lawful.
HOW THIS STORY WAS MADE
Written from 8 articles, 2 with the publisher's own text; 8 independent newsrooms once syndicated copies count as one; this version written 48 h after the record first saw the story; the editor revised it.
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WHAT THE EDITOR DID
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WHAT IT FLAGGED editor revise: One sentence implied a timing sequence for the searches and arrest that is not established by the sources, so it was narrowed to the supported legal challenge over warrants obtained before the arrest. - "officers searched his current and former homes and arrested him in February": The sources say police obtained warrants before his February arrest and searched his homes, but they do not say the home searches occurred before or at the same time as the arrest in the way this phrasing implies.
THE DRAFT AND THE CHANGES
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor challenges police search warrants in High Court
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor has asked Britain’s High Court to quash search warrants obtained by Thames Valley Police before officers searched his current and former homes and arrested himarrest in February, the judiciary confirmed Monday.
A private hearing is scheduled for Thursday. According to the judiciary, the case seeks judicial review of warrants issued by a Central Criminal Court judge on February 18. Thursday’s hearing will address a police application to restrict access to court documents.
Police arrested Andrew, 66, on February 19 on suspicion of misconduct in public office related to his links to the late U.S. sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. He was released later that day and remains under investigation. Andrew has denied wrongdoing.
Officers searched his home on the Sandringham estate in eastern England and his former residence, Royal Lodge, in Windsor. Thames Valley Police said its investigation was continuing and declined further comment because of the legal proceedings.
Andrew, King Charles III’s brother, was stripped of his royal titles last year over his connections to Epstein. His legal team is challenging whether the warrants authorizing the searches were lawful.
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