Peter Mandelson Emails show contact with convict until 2016

Peter Mandelson, who was sacked as the UK’s ambassador to Washington over his association with Jeffrey Epstein, was in contact with the convicted child sex offender as late as 2016, new emails have revealed.

- Emine Sinmaz

Mandelson was sacked in September over leaked emails in which he expressed his support for Epstein and urged him to “fight for early release” in 2008 while the disgraced financier was facing charges of soliciting sex from minors. The emails revealed the pair maintained contact until 2010.

But new emails released in the US by Democrats on the House oversight committee, which is conducting an inquiry into the US government’s handling of the Epstein case, have revealed that the pair were still in contact six years later.

The documents contain an email from Epstein to Mandelson on 6 November 2016 that said: “63 years old. You made it,” in an apparent reference to Mandelson’s birthday two weeks earlier.