She put an innocent man in prison, he has since lost his business and I think, his home.
The police had already arrested Lumumba because they believed he was involved. My previous posts set out how they extracted Knox's statement implicating both herself and Lumumba. Whenever she said she was innocent and Lumumba was innocent, she was slapped and told she was lying. Contrary to Italian law, she was not provided with a lawyer. The interpreter was incompetent and believed her job was to help the police get Knox to give a statement implicating herself and Lumumba. The police interviewed her for over 12 hours at a time with 12 officers involved in the interrogation. Interrogations often lasted into the small hours of the morning. During interrogation, she was not provided with food or water. These are brainwashing techniques. The police did this to Lumumba, not Knox.
The police investigation was flawed but there was evidence to implicate her and Sollecito.
No, there was no credible evidence to implicate either of them, which is why the Italian courts have said not only that they were not guilty, but that they were definitively not involved.
The knife from Sollecito's flat had Meredith's DNA on it. How did it get there?
No, it did not. This was a lie in the original trial by the police forensic scientist. She refused to hand over her notes to the defence - a refusal which, in the UK, would have resulted in her evidence being excluded. When the appeal court appointed independent forensic scientists to look into the evidence, she refused to hand over her notes to them until ordered to do so by the court. When she did hand over her notes, it was immediately apparent why she had tried to hide them. Much of her evidence in the original trial was a lie, including this. Contrary to her claim in court, her testing had failed to find any of Meredith's DNA on the knife. Even if she had found some:
- She had not taken proper precautions to prevent and detect contamination, so any findings could be contamination
- Her laboratory was not certified to conduct Low Copy Number DNA testing and she carried out the test incorrectly, so any results she obtained were invalid
- The quantity of Meredith's DNA she claimed to have found was so low it could have been normal transfer through Knox getting some of Meredith's DNA on her clothes and then using the knife. The amount she falsely claimed to find was nowhere near enough to say the knife had ever been in contact with Meredith, and the prosecution's contention that this was the murder weapon is not consistent with the evidence - the knife is too big to be the murder weapon
Yes someone was found guilty, they said Knox and Sollecito were there too.
Guede received a reduced sentence when he said Knox and Sollecito were there too. He had previously tried to implicate an unknown third party. He continued to deny his own guilt and his version of events is clearly not consistent with the forensic evidence. I would not give his evidence any weight.
The murder was so brutal it had to be more than one person.
No, it did not. There was extensive forensic evidence of Guede's presence in the murder room, including evidence that he had sexually assaulted Meredith. There was no forensic evidence at all that anyone else was present. There was the bloodstained imprint of a knife on the bedding. That knife has never been recovered, but it appears to be of the right size to have inflicted all the wounds including the fatal wound. Meredith's injuries are consistent with being rapidly overwhelmed by her attacker. They do not require multiple attackers.