Young women, some of them undressed, appear in videos contained in the Epstein files, signalling that the justice department failed to shield the identities of potential victims.

Thousands of photographs and files from federal investigations into Jeffrey Epstein were published on Friday after Donald Trump bowed to pressure from within his own party to release the documents.

Bill Clinton, the former president, features prominently in various photographs, including one of him swimming with Ghislaine Maxwell. Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor is also in one photograph.

But while the majority of the documents were heavily redacted, images of several girls were not blurred in footage released by the department of justice, despite the pictures being covered up in previous releases.

In one video, which appears to show an officer recording a walk-through of Epstein’s Florida home, images on the walls show young women who can clearly be seen with their faces unobscured.

At least one of the women is naked, and two others are topless.

The cameraman then moves into an en-suite bathroom and zooms in on artwork and other images on the wall. A framed photo of a very young girl in a swimming pool can be seen.

In another video also showing an officer walking through Epstein’s home, pictures on the wall show a girl in a blue frame with the word “twinkle” written on it.

Another photo showing Epstein sitting at a dining table with three women standing behind him, with one appearing to have her hands jokingly on his throat, is not blurred or redacted in any way.

Elsewhere in the release, scanned images of these pictures included black boxes obscuring the women’s identities.

It is not clear whether the women pictured were victims of Epstein, but their unredacted images raise questions as to whether the department of justice failed to protect their identities.

Friday’s release came on the final day of the 30-day deadline that mandated the publication of all of the government’s files on Epstein except for those revealing the identity of victims.

Despite this, only a fraction of the files were released.

‘Highly redacted’

Robert Garcia, the most senior Democrat on the House Oversight Committee, said half of the documents released had already been disclosed and the other half was “highly redacted”.

The failure to meet the deadline will put further pressure on Mr Trump, who initially reneged on a campaign promise to release all the files should he be re-elected.

The president agreed to release the files after months of resistance prompted conspiracy theories of a cover-up of his own relationship with Epstein.

Mr Trump was good friends with Epstein from the late eighties, but cut off contact with the paedophile in 2004, four years before Epstein pleaded guilty to soliciting prostitution from a minor.

There is no suggestion Mr Trump has done anything wrong.

Marina Lacerda, one of the women who claims she was sexually assaulted by Epstein, beginning when she was 14 years old, expressed frustration that all the files had not been released.

“Just put out the files,” she said. “And stop redacting names that don’t need to be redacted.”

She added: “In the beginning, they were calling us a hoax, right? Now they’re like ‘we believe you, we’re gonna release the files’, but yet you still haven’t released the files and it’s not even fully transparent.”

The files released included dozens of photographs of Mr Clinton, including one image of him in a hot tub with another person who has been censored.

The picture was shared by Karoline Leavitt, the White House press secretary, who wrote “Oh my” alongside an embarrassed emoji.

The never-before-seen photographs of Mr Clinton will lead to renewed scrutiny of the extent of his relationship with Epstein, but his spokesman accused the Trump administration of “shielding themselves from what comes next”.

Angel Ureña said the latest disclosure “isn’t about Bill Clinton. Never has, never will be”.

“There are two types of people here. The first group knew nothing and cut Epstein off before his crimes came to light,” he said.

“The second group continued relationships with him after. We’re in the first.”

Mr Mountbatten-Windsor also featured in the first trove of documents, including a picture of him lying in black tie across the laps of five women.

The Telegraph has contacted the department of justice for comment.