The women pictured with Professor Stephen Hawking during a 2006 trip to the US Virgin Islands have been identified as his carers, amid renewed scrutiny following the release of images linked to Jeffrey Epstein. The photographs, released by the US Department of Justice, show the late theoretical physicist relaxing outdoors, including one image of him on a deckchair being assisted with a red tropical drink. Hawking, who required round-the-clock medical support due to motor neurone disease, travelled with two regular British carers as part of a scientific conference attended by more than 20 academics. Other images show a red-haired woman speaking to him at a barbecue at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in St Thomas, where he delivered a lecture on quantum cosmology. The resort is located with...