Shayan Sardarizadeh and Matt Murphy, BBC Verify
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The US government has released previously unseen photos showing Jeffrey Epstein's body lying on a stretcher and paramedics administering first aid immediately after his death.
Twenty images, many too explicit to be released, are included in the FBI's declassified report on Epstein's death in custody, along with the autopsy and internal prison records.
They are among millions of documents released by the US Department of Justice on Friday in the latest release of the Epstein files.
Epstein was found dead in his prison cell on August 10, 2019.
He was being held pending trial at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York on charges of sex trafficking and conspiracy.
The FBI's most recently released report, titled "Investigation into the Death of Jeffrey Epstein," appears to be an investigation conducted by the agency's New York field office.
The 23-page report has a "top secret" stamp on every page.
The unredacted documents, seen by BBC Verify, contain close-up images of Epstein's neck and visible signs of injury.
They also contain details from Episton's autopsy and a psychologist's report on his mental health in the days before he killed himself.
In several photos, Epstein is lying on a stretcher as paramedics try to revive him.
They are dated August 10, 2019, with a timestamp of 06:49 local time, about 16 minutes after his lifeless body was found in his cell.
The location of the photos is not the clearest, but Epstein was taken to a nearby hospital at 06:39 a.m., where he was pronounced dead, suggesting they were taken there.
Three other photos have a note indicating that they were taken in the hospital.
They show a close-up of his head and a visible neck injury.
Epstein's name is in every photo, but his name is misspelled in some photos, as "Jeffery" instead of "Jeffrey."
BBC Verify did a reverse image search with the newly released photos of Epstein's body and could not find any earlier versions of them published online before January 30th.
We also found other corroborating material among the documents, including an 89-page autopsy report on Epstein filed by the Department of Justice and the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner (OCME) in New York, as well as emails from the FBI's New York field office containing the same redacted images.
Portions of the OCME report from Epstein's autopsy also appear in the report, including scans of two fractures in Epstein's thyroid cartilage in his neck.
The FBI report contains a six-page timeline of Epstein's time in New York's Metropolitan Correctional Center from his arrest on federal sex trafficking charges on July 6, 2019, until his death.
It shows that Epstein was placed on suicide prevention watch after he attempted to kill himself on July 23, 2019.
Epstein then accused his cellmate - Nillolas Tartallione, a former police officer accused of murder - of trying to kill him.
In a meeting with a psychologist the next day, Epstein said he was "not interested in killing himself" and that he would "be crazy" to take his own life, the document states.
On July 25, he stated that he was "too dedicated to fighting his case, I have a life and I want to get back to my own life," according to a psychologist's report.
Other documents released by the Justice Department show that the prison director advised that Epstein not be left alone in his cell and emphasized the need for “30-minute checks” of his cell and “unannounced visits.”
Epstein's cellmate was released the day before his death.
On the night of August 9, prison guards failed to conduct checks scheduled for 3 a.m. and 5 a.m., prison documents show, and the unit's security camera system also did not work.
His body was discovered during a regular morning roll call conducted by staff.
A second, redacted version of the same FBI report, which is only 17 pages long, was also released as part of the Epstein files.
It does not contain a psychologist's report or a timeline of events during his detention, and the photos in the file have been redacted.
It is not entirely clear why both the redacted and unredacted versions of the report were included in the file.
The Ministry of Justice has been contacted for comment.
The FBI declined to comment.
Additional reporting; Josh Cheetham
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