Ghislaine Maxwell is looking to appeal her sex trafficking conviction according to a report by the MailOnline.

The report reveals that she is hoping to overturn her conviction on the basis that ‘inhumane’ treatment in prison left her unable to mount a defence.

Ms Maxwell is currently serving a 20-year sentence for recruiting and trafficking underage girls for the late paedophile Jeffrey Epstein.

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She was held in the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn where she claims she was left sleep deprived and exhausted.

According to the MailOnline report, her appeal will suggest that this was the reason she chose not to testify at her trial.

Ms Maxwell has always protested her innocence and in an interview in jail admitted that she wished she had never met Epstein.

But when she passed the sentence Judge Alison Nathan described the crimes Ms Maxwell was convicted of as horrific.

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The 62-year-old has long standing ties to Oxford and grew up in the city.

She spent her childhood at the idyllic Headington Hill Hall, a 53-room mansion.

Ms Maxwell also studied at Oxford High School for Girls in North Oxford until the age of nine.

She was described by the national press as the youngest and the most glamorous director of any football club in the land when, aged 22, she became a director of Oxford United in 1984.

Ms Maxwell then went on to gain a degree from Oxford University, graduating in 1985.