"I want to apologise to those women for a system that refused to hear their voices and did not give them the protection they were entitled to expect. That system gave him protection and not them. If I had known, if I was in any way complicit or culpable, of course I would apologise for it. But I was not culpable, I was not knowledgeable of what he was doing."
"I regret and will regret to my dying day the fact that powerless women, women who were denied a voice, were not given the protection they were entitled to expect."
A former UK ambassador maintained he never saw girls at Jeffrey Epstein's properties and declined to apologise to Epstein's victims for maintaining a friendship, asserting lack of knowledge and non-complicity. He believed he had been "kept separate" from the sexual aspects of Epstein's life because he was gay and described the only people he saw at Epstein's properties as "middle-aged housekeepers." He was dismissed as ambassador after emails surfaced showing supportive messages sent to Epstein following a 2008 conviction for soliciting prostitution from a minor. The former ambassador apologised for systemic failures that protected Epstein and denied victims their entitled protections.
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