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

[VivienneDelacroix]

Aibu to think that this show at the Edinburgh Festival should be cancelled? It mocks the circumstances around the murder of Meredith Kercher and serves it up as entertainment.

Not only is it horribly disrespectful of Meredith's family, but it also belittles the issue of violence against girls and women.

Meredith's siblings are calling for it to be pulled from the festival. There is also a petition calling for it to be stopped.

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The murder happened 19 years ago (2007). Knox was released 15 years ago (2011) and ultimately acquitted 11 years ago, in 2015.

Yeah, I'm sure you'd have given her loads of time in 2010....

Her case was easily the most globally saturated, cross-continental media circus for a wrongfully accused individual in modern history, leaving it nigh-on impossible for her to live an anonymous life. The media output from her is a drop in the ocean compared to the coverage about her.

As much as some people might want to shut her up, and brush off what her treatment reveals of the pervasiveness and harmfulness of misogyny, I'm glad she has the courage to do otherwise.

While misogyny is a significant factor in the way she was perceived as unlikeable - it wasn’t the only factor. She tried to falsely implicate her boss at the time of the murder. The way she talks about what happened there is interesting too - she states she ‘feels guilt’ about ‘what happened to Patrick’. Mate, YOU happened to Patrick. No accountability at all. It didn’t just ‘happen’, she made it happen to him by lying about him.

And there is no doubt that a lot of the dislike of her is driven by anti American xenophobia.

I think its in poor taste as a form of entertainment. But I am not sure it should be banned. She claims she can’t live a normal life and I guess has to earn a living. Though others do disappear and lives normal lives - as a comparison no one ever hears about Louise Woodward anymore and that was very high profile at the time. For sure its about attention, but I guess that’s her choice after being falsely accused of murder.

No, the police happened to Patrick. They badgered an exhausted, confused young women for days, in a language she could speak only basically, and even hit her. You make it sound like she calculatedly tried to frame him or something.

Forensics had shown that it was a black man who committed the crime, and the police were itching for that man to be an associate of Meredith's.

She falsely implicated him while under extreme pressure to do so, in the same interview where she was pressured into falsely admitting her own involvement.

She did so while under extreme psychological manipulation, physical intimidation (including allegedly being repeatedly), and sleep deprivation - while being denied access to counsel and having only a basic grasp of the language she was being interrogated in, to the extent she did not even fully understand the statement she was signing.

Among its other findings, the European Court of Human Rights ruled her treatment in that interview to have contravened Article 3 of the convention (Prohibition of Torture and Inhumane Treatment).

I do not think she can reasonably held accountable for what she was abused and coerced into doing by the authorities, in her circumstances. The blame is with the police.

I must admit, I have signed this petition. Not because I don't believe she should tell her story, but because I think the platform is inappropriate. Amanda Knox was cleared and released but did spend time in prison in a country where she had no family or friends, couldn't really speak the language and was judged by the world, so I imagine she has many thoughts and feelings about this that she needs to express. But not in a comedy show, it just feels tacky, ill judged and thoughtless. If she wanted to give a sort of talk or take part in some kind of programme where wrongly convicted people share their experiences I think everyone would feel differently.

Go to the press, can you share the post outing the production company here? Is it on public socials?

…so people who haven’t seen a show, and don’t know the content, have signed a petition to ban the thing that they haven’t seen, based on assumptions about the show, made by other people who also haven’t seen the show?

Welcome to 2026.

Louise Woodward was/is prohibited from selling her story, under the terms of a settlement agreement.

DP's friend doesn't want the press intrusion that would come from contacting the media to complain about the media - who would probably love the publicity of getting them to appear to talk about how they don't want to be forced, bullied and blackmailed into talking about it. ETA: it would be fantastic publicity for the amoral scum's programmes, after all.

It's multiple companies over the years, all with the same methods of trying to coerce victims into providing better soundbites for selling the shows (usually say they're doing it for Channel 4, though, which is in keeping with where so many of these vulture shows are broadcast before flogging for satellite TV and endless reruns/podcasts/etc).

They have been permanently traumatised as a result of the original event and every time they are contacted again, it's a whole new trauma on top of the previous ones.

It's Knox's story though not Meredith. It's about what it was like to en convicted of something you didn't do.

There isn't a chance in hell everyone would feel differently, because as this thread demonstrates, there persist a group of people who still believe she's guilty. Which means there isn't a way for her to speak out about what happened to her that wouldn't draw some criticism. It's not possible.

Speaking for myself, I don't see how she can possibly be guilty and I don't understand the thinking. My only objection to the show is the comedy side of things and I wouldn't object to that if she was going about it in a different and more tactful way.

Ok, but do be aware that some people refuse to accept her right to speak out about the MOJ at all. I agree its not a sensible view.

i was on the fence before, but this post has made me sign it! 👍

Signed because people are absolute cunts

She was/is pilloried as unlikeable, as if that somehow takes away what she went through as a victim of a miscarriage of justice, or makes her less deserving of compassion, or of a voice on her own terms.

The narrative around her has never been in her control, no matter what she has said or done. Why would she be inclined to listen to those telling her that she needs to shut up, or that if she must tell her story, then she can only do so in a way they find acceptable? Why should she be? Because it would be in good taste? Like the salacious reporting on her sex life, in articles readily consumed by the same public that wants to lecture her on decorum now, was in good taste?

She’s been vilified publicly, internationally. In a way that ventured, and still ventures, into the realm of the absurd. There’s been room for every voice about her, but her own. She was torn down publicly, maybe it’s important to her to speak on her own experiences publicly, and absurdly, too.

Who is this petition addressed to? Who is supposed to have the power to cancel the show? The venue could say they'll no longer host it - but another venue somewhere will.

I hadn't heard about the show until I read about the protests on the BBC and here, so all they've achieved is to give it more publicity.

All eleven nights have already sold out as well.

Misogynists gonna misogyny.

In the US? Or the UK?

Both.

The uneducated gonna stayed uneducated!

For anyone whose supports this, if nothing else, show a complete lack of empathy for the family of Meredith. It’s utterly sick that a “friend” would do this and call it entertainment.