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The sad case of Meredith Kercher

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FreeGeorgeJackson · 03/12/2009 18:11

I feel for her parents. The trial seems to have gone on for ages doenst it?
I cant see ( form what i read) how kNox will get off.

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Bonsoir · 04/12/2009 08:00

LOL at you illiberal lot, speculating that Amanda Knox's behaviour since her arrest or how nice her family is are somehow indicators of whether she is guilty of the crime of killing Meredith Kercher...

GetOrfMoiLand · 04/12/2009 08:02

I haven't been fiollowing the case but I feel horrible sorry for Meredith Kercher's parents, who will never know what went on that night. What a horrible thing to have to cope with.

The reporting I have seen on this case seems to be salacious in the extreme, all the Foxy Knoxy crap and talk about her sexual fantasies etc.

Reda a fatuous article in Grazia couple of months ago about Amanda Know, all it banged on about was Knox's 'incredible beauty'. As if that's the point (ahem Anna).

Bonsoir · 04/12/2009 08:07

Not "ahem Anna". The only thing I feel quite sure about in this case is that she is beautiful (because I can see it for myself in the photos). All the rest, apart from the awfulness of the case, is completely uncertain and I would not presume to comment...

belgo · 04/12/2009 08:09

Bonsoir it may be the only thing you are certain about but it's also the least relevant part of the case.

GetOrfMoiLand · 04/12/2009 08:09

Anna, don't get all shirty and start boldening your text with me, my 'ahem' was light hearted.

Have a pop at the MNer who says you have been on the ricard

Bonsoir · 04/12/2009 08:11

Anyone on here who thinks they have any pertinent information about the case ought to be telling the police. There is nothing but vicious speculation and persecution idle gossip on this thread (and others). Why posters think it is somehow more "profound" commentary than commenting on Knox's physical features (which at least we can know for ourselves) is quite beyond me.

sherby · 04/12/2009 08:11

I'm not sure if they did it or not, but hate the 'trial by weirdness' which seems to be happening at the moment.

The evidence of the knife being too big for the wounds seemed quite compelling no?

And presumably she wasn't allowed back into her flat/house so needed to buy underwear?

I saw an interview with her parents on sky news the other day and they have that weird edge as well. Not so surprising their daughter does too

Bonsoir · 04/12/2009 08:13

I can bold you, GetOrfMoiLand, because you are more intelligent than the idle gossipers on this thread

brimfull · 04/12/2009 08:15

sadly I think her looks are relevant to the way this case has been prtrayed in the media

MadameDuBain · 04/12/2009 08:30

I thought it was she herself who called herself Foxy Knoxy, before any of this happened, on social networking sites etc.

It does occur to me that a lot of people make a tit of themselves on Facebook etc. or (especially young woman) present themselves online in a very sexual way. The trouble is now it's on record and any news person can go to Bebo or Twitter etc and report back on someone's foibles or drunken ramblings, it's easy to paint anyone how they like. You could be a young person having a lot of sex and getting drunk/stoned which is the norm for many 20-year-olds, but if you get dragged into a case like this then suddenly you can be made to look really dodgy.

I think the Italian justice system also comes out of this looking bizarre and incompetent. There doesn't seem to be any evidence involved at all that makes any sense, but surely at a murder scene like that it should have been possible to find out a lot more. I don't understand all the stuff about DNA - Knox lived there, of course her DNA would have been all over everything, how can that be significant?

Not saying she's innocent, I don't know, but I do think the whole case is a mess. The uncertainty and media circus around Knox must be horrendous for MK's family.

GetOrfMoiLand · 04/12/2009 08:31

It is why I have not read anything about the case - how it has been reported in the media has been vile. I can't imagine that there is any fair reporting going on.

The sad thing is the fact a 21 year old girl was butchered and nobody will ever know what went on. That is the real crux of the matter, but obviously that is not as interesting to Grazia as the fact men in Italy are falling in love with Aamnda Knox because of her beauty

belgo · 04/12/2009 08:43

I suppose it is naïve of me to think that her looks are irrelevant to the case.

If Knox is innocent, two years of her life wasted in a jail is very sad.

gagamama · 04/12/2009 09:18

I have no comment on the case itself, but I agree that the way the whole thing has been reported is vile, right from when the poor girl was murdered. A day or two after it happened, I remember the papers posting pictures from MK's Facebook of her at a Halloween party, dripping in fake blood. Absolutely sickening that someone would think that an appropriate way to illustrate a young woman who has just been brutally murdered. Photographs published of the blood-stained murder scene a few months ago were in very bad taste, too, and the constant referrals to AK as 'Foxy Knoxy'. I know this was a nickname she gave herself, but it's completely inappropriate to use it in the context of a murder trial.

I don't know about Knox, but Meredith was definitely absolutely stunning. So tragic.

AitchTwoToTangOh · 04/12/2009 10:28

madamedubain, couldn't agree more about facebook etc. jeez, when i think of some of the silly arsed things i did in my youth, many of which are lovingly chronicled in my photo albums...

dittany · 04/12/2009 10:44

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Miggsie · 04/12/2009 10:58

I think the (male dominated) media had trouble with this one because:

Beautiful young girl horribly killed: media goes on about how lovely she was, tragic loss of life cut short, can print lots of pictures of a pretty girl (like Rachel Nickel).

But here we have beautiful young girl killed...but one of the accused is a "beautiful young girl". Total brain lock by media torn between tragic death of beautiful young girl and "is this beautiful young girl accused actually guilty?"

Rosemary West was an easy one for the press to villify because she was a middle aged woman so no one cared much about her.

It must be dreadful for Meredith's family. I would not be able to accept that having a throat slit could be an "accident". Somebody did it and someone witnessed and colluded, and I also think long drawn out trials benfit the defendants and not the victims and their families.

dittany · 04/12/2009 11:05

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GetOrfMoiLand · 04/12/2009 11:09

Agree that Meredith Kercher has almost been viewed as a sideline in this case, all of the press attention has been solely based around Knox, with scant attention being paid to Solecito (sp).

That article in Grazia will full glossy pictures of Knox salivating over her beauty was a real nadir for me (not that Grazia is full of intelligent and well reasoned articles, well duh, you would find better written reports in Take a Break).

Bonsoir · 04/12/2009 11:13

It is, of course, the trial of Amanda Knox, hence the interest in her. No-one has ever, to my knowledge, ever suggested that Meredith Kercher was anything other than an entirely innocent victim. Which of course does not generate as much press coverage.

TeenageWildlife · 04/12/2009 11:24

And Sollecito? Who lied about being at home on his PC when he had not been? Why is he not being hounded?

Bucharest · 04/12/2009 11:28

I've not seen/heard/read anything over here to suggest that men all over Italy are falling in love with her. And objectively or subjectively, she is really quite ordinary looking.

He strikes me in court as being more worried looking. More desperate. She seems very sure of herself and all the footage shows her waving and ciao-ing to her chums.

Her dna was, IIRC, the only DNA found on the knife handle. I think it is being seen as significant because as has been said, they'd been at the mop and bleach bucket, so there wasn't a lot of dna anywhere else. His dna was all over Meredith's underwear, despite him maintaining he was elsewhere on his pooter at the time.

Bonsoir · 04/12/2009 11:29

He's Italian, so gets less coverage in the English-speaking media. Of course.

dittany · 04/12/2009 11:31

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Bucharest · 04/12/2009 11:33

That's because it's the age old chestnut Dittany, isn't it? That women are nurturers and mothers and yada yada and so when one does kill (Or is suspected of doing so) it hits the fan big time. Maxine Carr was vilified far more than Ian Huntley despite being in Grimsby, not Soham the night he murdered the 2 girls.

Bonsoir · 04/12/2009 11:34

I agree she is a better photo opportunity...