US billionaire commits suicide in jail

Disgraced US billionaire Jeffrey Epstein, facing a charge of s-x trafficking of minors in New York has committed suicide.

Reports quoting law enforcement officers said the 66 year-old paedophile committed suicide in his cell in a Manhattan jail on Saturday morning. His body was wheeled out and taken to a New York hospital around 7.30am.

The incident comes two weeks after the billionaire was found “injured and in a fetal position” on the floor of his cell, with injuries to his neck