Virginia Giuffre sadly took her own life in April 2025.

11:27, Thu, Jun 25, 2026 Updated: 11:32, Thu, Jun 25, 2026

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Virginia Giuffre accused the former Duke of York of sex abuse, something he has always denied. (Image: Getty)

It has been confirmed that the interactions Virginia Giuffre, who accused Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor of sexual abuse, had with police in the days before her death will be reviewed. Ms Giuffre sadly died by suicide at her home in Western Australia in April 2025.

Ms Giuffre was involved in a dispute with her former partner, which at one point led to her being charged with breaching a restraining order. The officers' handling of her case will be looked into, Western Australia's police commissioner has said in a new statement, RNZ News reports.

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The former Duke of York reached an out-of-court settlement with his accuser in a deal believed to have amounted to some £12million. The settlement was not an admission of wrongdoing by Andrew. He has repeatedly and strenuously denied the allegations.

In response to a letter he received from the Giuffre family, WA Police Commissioner Col Blanch confirmed his officers' handling of the case would be reviewed,

"We respond to over 100,000 family violence incidents every year," he told a Parliament hearing on Wednesday. "I'd love to give assurance on every single one, but I can't - but that one will be subject to a review."

Speaking outside Parliament, Commissioner Blanch said "all [officer] interactions will be reviewed" to see whether proper procedure was followed.

"I want to make sure we've done our job properly," he said. "We invest a lot in training of our police officers, we have body-worn video, so our reviews can be quite thorough."

Ms Giuffre pursued Mr Mountbatten-Windsor through the courts in a civil case in the United States over allegations he sexually assaulted her three times when she was 17.

Ms Giuffre alleged she was forced to have sex with Andrew three times - once at Ghislaine Maxwell's home in London, once at Jeffrey Epstein's address in Manhattan, and once on the disgraced financier's private island, Little St James.

After the US Department of Justice's release of thousands of documents and photographs linked to paedophile Jeffrey Epstein, an often contested image which shows Andrew with his hand around Virginia's bare waist at Ghislaine Maxwell's London home, was proved to be real.

When this was proven, her brother, Sky Roberts, said: “It truly does vindicate Virginia... she was not lying this entire time. It's a moment where we're really proud of our sister.”

Her sister, Amanda, said: “I've felt like a moment of such overwhelming emotion because I wish she was here to see this, she fought so hard and so long and she was still so strong.”

During his infamous 2019 Newsnight interview, Andrew denied meeting Ms Giuffre and suggested that the photograph or part of it could have been faked. He has always vehemently denied any wrongdoing.