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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Shweta Sharma and Bevan Hurley

Ghislaine Maxwell files request for retrial over juror’s revelation of own sexual abuse

ITV

Ghislaine Maxwell’s lawyers have formally requested that her sex trafficking convictions be dismissed after claiming a juror failed to disclose he had been sexually abused as a child in a pre-trial questionnaire.

The socialite’s attorneys said in a legal filing on Wednesday that the juror, known by his first names Scotty David, had also convinced other jury members during deliberations that the Maxwell’s victims were telling the truth.

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