Ghislaine Maxwell kept awake at night so she doesn't die like Epstein, lawyers say

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Source: The Guardian and agencies

Ghislaine Maxwell kept awake at night so she doesn’t die like Epstein, lawyers say

Appeals judges expressed concern about guards shining light into the British socialite’s cell every 15 minutes

Guardian staff and agencies
Mon 26 Apr 2021 20.48 BST

Appeals judges hearing bail arguments seemed sympathetic on Monday to claims that the British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell is unjustly kept awake at night by guards ensuring she doesn’t die in jail in New York – in the way that Jeffrey Epstein did in 2019 while awaiting his sex trafficking trial.

Two of three judges on a second US circuit court of appeals panel in Manhattan expressed concern about light shone in her cell every 15 minutes at night as Federal Bureau of Prisons (BoP) guards make sure she is breathing.

They did not, however, seem necessarily inclined to free Maxwell, 59, on bail before a 12 July trial on charges that she procured teenage girls for Epstein to sexually abuse – and sometimes joined in the abuse.

She has pleaded not guilty. Bail has been rejected three times since her arrest last July.

“Is she a suicide risk or not?” the circuit judge Richard Sullivan asked the assistant US attorney Lara Pomerantz.

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