AIBU to think an Edinburgh festival show about Meredith Kercher's murder should be stopped?

You think it wouldn’t be reviewed, posted on social media and picked up by the press

Of course it would have the very fact Knox is performing a comedy show around her reason being famous is controversial

And again why not do the show someone that it won’t be so controversial there are plenty of other comedy festivals

I can’t think of another international one like this to compare

those cases you mention were known in Britain but unlikely to be worldwide - they all served time

one a week would be 52 a year - I’d call that rare - thank goodness

Unfortunately, miscarriages of justice are not rare. There is at least one every week in the UK, and that is just the ones that get overturned. There will be more miscarriages that are never overturned. However, most miscarriages of justice never achieve the profile of cases such as this, the Birmingham Six, the Guildford Four, the Bridgewater Four, Andrew Malkinson and so on.

None of us seemed to know about it until the Kerchers publicised it

MOJ are rare thank god - I can’t think of another so high profile on an international level

they are not going on all the time as you purport

Knox was sued for slander by the police on the basis of her accusation that she was repeatedly slapped. She won. The courts decided her accusation was true.

Yes, the police provided food. However, they also questioned her for up to 14 hours at a time with no food or water being provided during the interrogation.

"Always picking on Amanda"? I've never spoken about her, posted about her, or anything else about her in my life apart from 3 posts on this thread.

Everyone please fact check this. I know I read that food was provided. The police were accused of slapping her, but there is no evidence of this. You can read a lot of the trial transcripts (translation tools are pretty good now). The Italian police were shockingly incompetent, but it seems unlikely they would risk violence against an American student. As we know, Knox was fully supported by the US government.

Everyone please fact check this. I know I read that food was provided. The police were accused of slapping her, but there is no evidence of this. You can read a lot of the trial transcripts (translation tools are pretty good now). The Italian police were shockingly incompetent, but it seems unlikely they would risk violence against an American student. As we know, Knox was fully supported by the US government.

Everyone please fact check this. I know I read that food was provided. The police were accused of slapping her, but there is no evidence of this. You can read a lot of the trial transcripts (translation tools are pretty good now). The Italian police were shockingly incompetent, but it seems unlikely they would risk violence against an American student. As we know, Knox was fully supported by the US government.

One movie. Other people wrote and researched them. You hardly heard from them again as they wanted to get on with their lives out of the spotlight. Lots of people are the victims of a miscarriage of justice. They don't spend their whole lives reliving it in the spotlight.

all publicity generated creates an interest something that of course benefits Edinburgh festival, there can never too too much interest …

Knox knows the Kerchers would speak out what family wouldn’t in their situation she doesn’t give a fuck, she may not have to care about them but she does care about being in the public eye and knows how to generate public interest

So why not do her comedy routine in the many other festivals around the world where it won’t be so controversial well the answer is simple it wouldn’t create the attention and that it has and this as we all know is not only shared with herself and that’s the issue it’s also about a family who have suffered enough

still a nice platform for her break into the comedy side of public speaking

Please, do tell, what extra revenue will the Fringe - the largest performing arts festival in the world - receive as a result of the controversy?

I'm also going to dare to venture that some people found Amanda Knox somewhat controversial already.

And, the fact remains, the media reaponse over the last 2 days was entirely driven by the Kerchers. I don't mean to condemn them (I don't think their statements were fair, but obviously they originate from severe trauma) but the notion that they unwittingly found themselves the centre of media attention - when they actively courted it for a campaign - is about as far wide of the mark as it gets.

And - again - the British press (and sections of the British public) have discussed Amanda Knox at length. Far more has been said about her than she has said on her own behalf. Even if the reason she chose the Edinbrugh Fringe is because it is in the UK (rather than it prominence and history as a performing arts festival), that would be entirely understandable and justified.

Not least given that the response from critics and audiences appears universal in that there was nothing disrespectful about the content, and the allegations made in the petition were completely wide of the mark.

And people like this are why jury trials are so scary and flawed.

Incidentally, if someone were to:

(a) try to prevent someone from exercising their freedom of speech then, having failed to do so, purported to celebrate freedom of speech;

(b) after accusing someone of murder despite a full-throated and final exoneration, pivoted their argument to "the show shouldn't be allowed because of her conviction for slander of another person - who has raised no objection to show - despite the fact that there are ongoing legal proceedings",

One might reasonably think they are posting comments in bad faith.

Happy to put it to the thread though - does anyone believe ThatJadeLion's genuine underlying concern is the conviction of slander?