to think that the people on here who were condeming Amanda Knox should apologise?

[margerykemp]

Some of the language used by some people on here was really appauling.

Hang your heads in shame!

indeed, the knife bit was highly dubious and also completely discredited

yes and taken out of context and interpreted on mn as indicative of a clinical presentation

As fastweb put it, it was a miracle that he cut the umbilcle cord to escape from his family in the South and go to the North to study. I bet when he met AK with her vibrators and all, liberated and up for sex, he must have thought he'd died and gone to heaven. No bloody wonder they turned their phones off for their first weekend alone.

You are the one that took it out of context and put it in the DM, my point was...why wasn't it in the DM??

Why wasn't WHAT in the DM? I don't read the DM. Well only when Mnetters link to ludicrous stories....The only paper I have bought in 5 years is the Sunday Times

don't shout at me just because you can't follow the thread

Did you reference Bob Hare's Psychopathy checklist (the commonly used clinical diagnostic tool) when diagnosing RS, pickledsiblings?

I believe it runs to several pages. Rather than 'taciturn, introverted and shy' psychopaths tend to be charming and have a grandiose sense of self-worth. They also tend to be sexually promiscuous, whereas I believe AK was his first girlfriend. A record of juvenile delinquency.

Of course you with your flippant diagnosis will have accounted for all this?

no noblegiraffe, for my quasi diagnosis I used the DM definition of weirdo = psycho

[chill people, was just making the point that AK had an unfair trial by the media when there was more that could have been said about RS, not that that would have been any better mind you]

It wasn't in the DM (or rather it was but wasn't a focus) because it didn't fit the preferred narrative of two innocent men beguiled into a murderous sex game by a she-devil. Also: misogyny.