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2026-10-08 · Aljazeera

UK ex-prince Andrew search warrants quashed after police accept legal error

Police in the United Kingdom have agreed that warrants they secured to search properties linked to Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor ⁠had been issued unlawfully and must be quashed, but they say the investigation into King Charles’s younger brother is ongoing. High Court Justice Nicholas Hilliard said on Thursday that the Thames Valley Police had made a “significant error” in applying for the warrant when they searched the properties of the former British prince, and that police had agreed that “the search warrants were unlawful”. But he added, “The fact that the search warrants were quashed does not bring an investigation to an end, or mean that the whole of the investigation was unlawful.

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