Jeffrey Epstein helped the billionaire father of a fugitive killer get legal advice from Tony Blair‘s former Director of Public Prosecutions, the Daily Mail can reveal today.

The paedophile financier said he spoke to Lord Ken Macdonald who charged Shaher Abdulhak more than £20,000 to meet in Paris after his son Farouk fled the UK having allegedly raped and murdered Norwegian student Martine Vik Magnussen.

The barrister, a co-founder of Cherie Blair’s Matrix chambers, was DPP and head of the Crown Prosecution Service when Martine was found strangled in a London apartment in March 2008.

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