A former legal prosecutor has said that there is “now a very real possibility” of a retrial of Ghislaine Maxwell.

Speaking to The Washington Post, Jason P W Halperin, a former prosecutor in the US attorney’s office in Manhattan, said: “This juror has no idea what kind of a chaotic chain reaction he has unleashed.”

He added: “There is now a very real possibility that there will have to be a new trial”.

In Maxwell’s case, dozens of jurors were released from service based on their questionnaire answers.

Lindsay K Gerdes, a former federal and state prosecutor, said: “Most of these motions are dismissed out of hand. But this is one that is getting immediate attention and very well may have a positive outcome for the defendant here.”

Prince Andrew’s connections with Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein have recently be re-examined in a revealing ITV documentary.

So, Bevan Hurley asks, what were Prince Andrew’s ties to the pair and what can a photo presented to Maxwell’s trial tell us about their relationships?

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A Ghislaine Maxwell juror, known by his first names Scotty David, is now at the centre of efforts by the socialite’s lawyers to overturn her conviction.

Scotty David has spoken about how the “brutal” toll of deciding Maxwell’s fate brought some of the jury members to tears.

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A former university friend of Ghislaine Maxwell has said that he believes she could have been in a relationship with Prince Andrew.

Speaking to an ITV documentary about the connections between Maxwell, Epstein and Prince Andrew, Euan Rellie said: “[Maxwell] described Andrew being her friend, not Jeffrey’s.

“I got the sense that Prince Andrew and Ghislaine had probably been girlfriend and boyfriend in the past. They had an easy warmth around each other.”

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Here is how the original interview with juror Scotty David appeared in The Independent earlier this month.

The interview revealed that Scotty David believed the witness testimonies because he himself is a survivor of sexual abuse.

He told Lucia Osborne-Crowley : “This verdict is for all the victims. For those who testified, for those who came forward and for those who haven’t come forward. I’m glad that Maxwell has been held accountable.”

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Lawyers for socialite and convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell have formally requested her case go to a retrial, after one of the jurors in her case revealed he was himself a victim of sexual abuse.

Maxwell, 60, was convicted on five counts of sex trafficking and other crimes for recruiting and grooming teenage girls to have sexual encounters with the late financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

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