Piers Morgan takes a jibe at rich and powerful people after Maxwell's conviction

Piers Morgan has claimed that many rich and powerful people could be 'sweating' after Ghislaine Maxwell's guilty verdict.

Former Good Morning Britain presenter apparently took an aim at Queen's second son Prince Andrew over his connections to Maxwell and Jeffery Epstein.

Prince Andrew's 60-year-old friend was found guilty on five out of six counts of sex trafficking in the Jeffery Epstein sex abuse case on Wednesday 29 December.

Taking to Twitter, Morgan wrote: "Will vile sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell now sing like a canary to avoid spending the rest of her life in prison? If she does, there could be a lot of rich, powerful & famous people sweating tonight... and not sweating."

Some fans and  critics think that Morgan seemingly took a  thinly-veiled jibe at the Duke of York  over his connections to Ghislaine and Jeffery Epstein as the royal faces serious allegations from Virginia Giuffre.

Virginia is an American-Australian campaigner to support sex trafficking victims. She is a prominent and public victim of the sex trafficking ring of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Jeffrey Epstein's 2009 settlement with Prince Andrew's accuser Virginia Giuffre will be made public this week following an order by the US judges. The agreement between Epstein and Virginia Giuffre could be key to a legal case involving Prince Andrew.