New York | A renowned psychologist on false memory took the witness stand for the defence in the Ghislaine Maxwell sex-trafficking trial, testifying that research has shown that people can develop memories about events that didn’t happen – often as a result of suggested, or even planted, misinformation.
Elizabeth Loftus, a Stanford-educated academic and researcher, was called by Ms Maxwell’s legal team in a quest to sow doubt among jurors about the truthfulness of the four women accusing her of facilitating and participating in sexual assaults of underage girls by the late New York financier Jeffrey Epstein.
