This story is getting more and more bizarre.

Jeffrey Epstein’s former cellmate is angling for a pardon from Donald Trump, according to a report.

Nicholas Tartaglione, a former police officer who is serving four life terms for murder and kidnap, shared a cell with Epstein weeks before the disgraced financier died by suicide.

Tartaglione is making a fresh bid for release backed by an ally of Robert F Kennedy Jr, the US health secretary, The New Yorker reported.