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LadyBeagleEyes · 23/09/2011 17:16

Her appeal is being heard at the moment, and there is a good chance she'll be freed.
So who did kill Meredith?
If she and her ex boyfriend are deemed innocent, I hope the Italian police will continue to look into the case and get some justice for her.
I don't understand why they say the DNA is flawed, or have Knox's parents just managed to hire some very smart lawyers?
It's such a sad case.

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CointreauVersial · 23/09/2011 17:20

This is when we hear the usual quote that they're "not looking for anyone else in connection with the crime."

In other words, they are guilty as hell, but got off on a technicality.

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LadyBeagleEyes · 23/09/2011 17:33

I'm veering to that way of thinking as well Cointreau.
There's something about Amanda Knox that I can't put my finger on.
Obviously, my only knowledge is what I see on the tv, I hope that they don't get off on a technicality, but it is looking increasingly likely.

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Gigondas · 23/09/2011 17:33

Some supporter of Knox was on radio five earlier - I may have misheard but pretty sure they argued that nothing would bring meredith back but this was potentially another tragedy (the implication being It was as bad) if knox wasnt freed.

I don't know enough about case to comment on technicality but struck me as an unbelievably crass thing to say (hence why I am thinking I misheard)

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CaptainMartinCrieff · 23/09/2011 17:38

I'm also thinking what Cointreau said if I'm being totally honest.

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fastweb · 23/09/2011 18:08

You get three appeals under Italisn law. Bit itmgoes both ways, the prosecution can appeal to.

So if once this o e is heard, if she is freed the prosecution can appeal for a third trial.

I think.

DH (Italian law graduate) keep explainng it, and then I forget again.

I'll go check.

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fastweb · 23/09/2011 18:16

He says if I am saying what he thinks I am saying, then yes, there could be a thrid trial. Called by the prosecution.

If she loses this appeal she still has one more even higher level of court for a trial.

There was another case a few years ago. Mother killed small son, she was in and out of jail like a yo yo, but jailed for 30 years after the third and final trial.

I'll see if can find and english version of event for that one cos it illustrates how the system works.

Am trying to hit the right letters on the keyboard ever so hard this time. Sorry about that, the ipad won't let me look at what I typed that is no longer in the box.

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fastweb · 23/09/2011 18:18

Jailed for 16 years not thirty. it's all in Italian, can't find an English version. Sorry.

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SansaLannister · 23/09/2011 18:20

Who knows? Unless you're in the courtroom, it's hard to tell. Until her conviction is over-turned she is guilty.

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MamaMary · 23/09/2011 20:19

I've followed the case closely, and I believe she's guilty.

Feel awful for Meredith's family. :(

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DuelingFanjo · 23/09/2011 22:10

imo Guede killed her.
All evidence points to that being the case. It's a shame that Meredith Kerher has been forgotten in all this but hopefully her parents would want the real murderer behind bars rather than the possibility of a miscarriage of justice.

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DuelingFanjo · 23/09/2011 22:13

gosh, just read the thread back and I am quite shocked you all think they are guilty given the weight of evidencve against Guede who fled the scene and left dna all over the crime-scene.

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winnybella · 23/09/2011 22:18

Tbh it all seems odd: Guede and AK and her boyfriend all getting together to murder Meredith...doesn't really seem plausible...did the prosecution established any links between Guede and MK and RS? Did they hang out together beforehand?

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DuelingFanjo · 23/09/2011 22:21

not properly no, and no dna connection in the room where the body was found either - no credible dna connection anyway.

And ... if they 'get off' it woon't be 'on a technicality' it will be because the DNA evidence was shit and manipulated to fit a bizzare theory invented by the prosecutor.

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begonyabampot · 24/09/2011 00:25

I honestly don't have a clue what happened here. I do hate the way Amanda Knox was maliciously vilified by the press though before they had even went to trial.

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LoveInAColdClimate · 24/09/2011 00:36

I don't think she did it. And if she didn't, it would be a tragedy for her and her family if she spends the next 40 years in an Italian prison, being vilified by the press.

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cloudydays · 24/09/2011 00:39

Gigondas I don't think that sounds like a crass thing to say, actually.

If the person was a supporter, they presumably believe that Amanda Knox is an innocent woman. In that case, what is wrong with saying that it would amount to another tragey if she were jailed for a murder that she didn't commit?

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NotADudeExactly · 24/09/2011 00:47

I have the funniest feeling that she was involved.

However, on the basis of the evidence against her I think she should be acquitted. Gut feelings are hardly an acceptable basis for judicial decisions.

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LadyBeagleEyes · 24/09/2011 01:01

She (Amanda), seems so confident.
Her friend and flatmate died, and I have never seen any emotion in her face, other than a rather smug smile.
If she had nothing to do with it, wouldn't she be mourning the death of a friend who died in such horrific circumstances?
I'd have been in bits, but she seems to be the calmest of them all.

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begonyabampot · 24/09/2011 01:08

LadyBeagles, you are the kind of reader that the press loves.

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begonyabampot · 24/09/2011 01:11

Honestly, FFS! You see ages photos, cherry picked by the press to suit their agenda, FFS! She may or may not be guilty, I won't judge it on a few photos.

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begonyabampot · 24/09/2011 01:14

The day my mother died, after I had nursed her and held her - you know what, we smiled,laughed and cracked jokes - honestly this makes me want to fucking weep!

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thereiver · 24/09/2011 01:19

she is as guilty as hell all that is happening now is the yanks are putting pressure on to get free so oprah can chat to her and they can make a film , shame she wasnt hanged

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begonyabampot · 24/09/2011 01:26

The Reiver, your in a roll - so who else is guilty apart from Davis and Knox? You a McQueen fan by chance?

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cloudydays · 24/09/2011 01:29

I agree with you begonyabampot. I don't know whether she's guilty or not, but it does disgust me to hear people assume that she's guilty because they don't think she seems like a nice person, or because she hasn't reacted (publicly, in the photographs and footage that the press has chosen to show) in the way that they think they would.

Also I'd take a guess that "the yanks" assisting her appeal are motivated more by their discomfort with the notoriously corrupt Italian "justice" system than by visions of an Oprah Winfrey special Hmm .

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TheBride · 24/09/2011 01:39

It's Kate McCann all over again. She doesn't behave in the accepted way. The press don't like her. Therefore she is definitely a murderer.

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