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

Who should she make it about? Wrongful imprisonment and wrongful conviction happened to HER

I’d say it’s the Kerchers who are addicted to media attention

Her outstanding conviction is for slander, based on her statement incriminating Patrick Lumumba (which, of course, also incriminated herself). Given the previous decisions of the courts about the way this statement was extracted from her, it is astonishing that the courts have upheld this conviction. Upholding it flies in the face of the evidence. It does, of course, mean that she is not entitled to any compensation from Italy for 4 years of wrongful imprisonment. If the courts had vacated the conviction, she would have been entitled to around £300,000 compensation. Instead, the only compensation she has received is around £16,000 for violations of her rights by the police when she was being interrogated.

Italian law is unusual. If this had happened in the UK (or in most other jurisdictions), she would not have committed a criminal offence even if she had implicated Lumumba to the police voluntarily. Indeed, in the UK statements to the police are protected by qualified privilege, so even a civil case against her would have failed. And of course, in the UK the police would not have been able to coerce her into implicating Lumumba in the way that happened in Italy. She would not have been subjected to over 12 hours of questioning a day over 4 days. She would not have been deprived of sleep and questioned in the early hours of the morning, nor would she have been beaten by the police. She would not have been denied a lawyer. If she did not speak English, she would have been provided with a competent interpreter who understood their role. And the police would not have been able to continue this treatment of her indefinitely until she finally gave them what they wanted - a statement implicating both herself and Lumumba in line with their theory at the time.

Note that, if you were to walk into a police station in Italy and repeat to them your belief that Knox is guilty of involvement in Kercher's murder despite the clear evidence that she is not, you would have committed the same offence as her and, if prosecuted, would be facing a 4 year sentence.

Amanda Knox has an account of what happened and the treatment received that is something that should be told. The miscarriage of justice, the way that a woman who seemingly enjoys sex was portrayed, and much more.

I just don't think it should be a comedy show.

She is a victim of a miscarriage of justice .. and the show (very clearly) all about her.

…still can’t work out what she’s done wrong

You were indeed. What you've left out is how you think it related to the posts you were quoting.

I think I pretty was clear in what I said.

Absolutely. That's very clear. What still isn't clear is whether you thought that wasn't happening in either the post you replied to initially or mine, and if so why. Obviously you don't think criticism is the same thing as silencing, after all.

Agree. Attention seeking professional victim who makes it all about HER.

Oh dear. (My opinion).

The attitudes, decency and behaviour of those MNers who do want the play to happen are very much up for critique too. After all we are dealing someone who was handed a prison sentence in 2025.

Obviously it works both ways in a discussion about a discussion as you put above.

It's great when people respect others have opposing views and accept this. Both sides of the discussion are up for critique if people wish.

There's a report about it here from the show last night. I still don't know what to think. It sounds like she made some cheap jokes about being in prison.

https://www.scotsman.com/arts-and-culture/i-went-to-amanda-knoxs-first-fringe-show-and-here-is-everything-that-happened-8845537

That doesn't relate to either what I wrote just then or the post you quoted. Neither of those posts disputed anyone's right to object.

Because the people who are exercising their right to complain about the play are also subject to comment and opinion, just like anyone else. Criticising them/you isn't silencing either.

Your opinion and obviously you're entitled to it. But the people that signed do have the right to object. That's not silencing. Amanda Knox has told her story many times and she has been free to do so.

She isn't not respecting it. The post you comment on here is discussion of the discussion, which of course people also have every right to engage in. The attitudes, decency and behaviour of those MNers who want the play not to happen are very much up for critique.

Amanda Knox has every right to talk about her experience but that doesn’t mean she has to do it in a manner that is upsetting to the family of the victim. And I’m sorry but she falsely accused her boss of the murder …and apparently has never apologised . something about that girl just irritates the shit out of me. Meredith lost her life and it’s pretty disrespectful.

Ok, for those that weren't aware. people need to Google 2025 and Amanda Knox which explains she's a convicted criminal and handed a three year sentence.

People are entitled to discuss events leading up to a convicted criminal's account of events and object to her being given a comedy platform about the very case connected to that conviction. You might not like it but you have to respect that.

A petition isn’t silencing her; it’s people exercising their own right to object. Everyone has a right to do that.

Yep! Know seems to inspire a great deal of armchair expertise from people whose law and psychology degrees were gained from the university of the Facebook comments section.

Perhaps some people don't want to see a convicted criminal with a recent three year sentance attempting to entertain a crowd of people.

Seriously, listen to yourself.

And people have offered similar opinions about Knox constantly for nearly two decades - with the true crime "community" (especially in the UK) forever dissecting her, spinning theories and peddling content about her.

"She should shut up and take it" seems to be the reaction of many.

Of course. A traumatized, victimized woman speaking up in an attempt to process what happened to her and to regain control over her own narrative simply must be a narcissist. You just can't make it up - and this on a women's forum! Do you go similarly overboard with regard to Monica Lewinsky, who's been dealing with her own ideal in remarkably similar fashion?

The show had already, quietly, sold out its entire run before the family started doing their high-profile media campaign against it.

Thrust into the spotlight my ass.

And I suspect much of the controversy is a result of their inflammatory misrepresentations about the content of the show.