Epstein jail guards used 'fake body' to trick people while real corpse was loaded into van 'unnoticed', files claim

Guards who were present at the jail where Jeffrey Epstein died allegedly used a decoy to transport his body, according to documents released in the Epstein files.

Epstein was found hanged in his cell while in custody on 10 August, 2019.

The convicted sex offender's death has led to a whole host of conspiracy theories, which ultimately saw the FBI releasing a video last year which they say proved that Epstein took his own life.

The footage is over 10 hours of CCTV of the view in front of Epstein's cell door.

The door itself is not visible, but the FBI and the US Justice Department say it proves that nobody murdered Epstein as the camera would have seen anyone going to the door and entering the cell.

The CCTV footage shows the night of 9 August and the early hours of 10 August, with Epstein being walked to his cell by prison guards at 7.49pm on 9 August, with the remainder of the hours of video appearing to show nobody else crossing the space in front of the convicted sex offender's cell door.

Fast-forward to this year and following the release of the latest batch of Epstein files, more information has come out regarding Epstein's death and the days that followed.

Unsealed documents claim that after Epstein had been pronounced dead, arrangements were made for his body to be transferred to the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner.

According to a memo, a jail supervisor told the FBI that staff members devised a plan to distract reporters due to the huge media presence.

Officers used 'boxes and sheets to create what appeared to be a human body, which was put into a white OCME vehicle which the press followed, allowing the black vehicle to depart unnoticed with EPSTEIN's body'.

Documents in the Epstein files reveal the ruse (DoJ)

Other documents claim that the warden at the prison has advised that Epstein shouldn't be in a cell alone, adding that he needed checks every half an hour.

It has since transpired that on the day before Epstein's death, his cellmate had been released. Meanwhile, guards had failed to check the cell between 3am and 5am.

One conspiracy theory that recently resurfaced was discussed by Lady Victoria Hervey, the ex-girlfriend of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, who said she still believes the financier is alive.

New files in relation to Epstein have recently been released (Rick Friedman/Corbis via Getty Images)

Hervey was mentioned in the files 23 times, telling LBC last week: "Well, of course I am [in the Epstein files]. Because it's any journalist who wrote about it.

"If you were on the scene and you were powerful, to be honest, if you're not in those files, it would be an insult because it just means that you were a bit of a loser."

"I don't even think Jeffrey Epstein's dead anymore, to be honest," she said, adding that she thinks he could be in Israel.

Speaking to host Tom Swarbrick, she elaborated: "I think, just, I'd seen one of those emails, one of the ones that ended up in the files, and I think that prison guard needs to be interviewed. The one that he said he saw the bodies being switched out."