Amanda Knox who was jailed for 26 years earlier this month for the murder of Meredith Kercher, 21 has been interviewed by reporters for the first time since her sentencing took place where she admitted she is scared.
Amanda Knox who was jailed for 26 years earlier this month for the murder of Meredith Kercher, 21 has been interviewed by reporters for the first time since her sentencing took place where she admitted she is scared. She was visited by two Italian MPs Rocco Girlanda and Katia Polidori from the Italian-American Foundation who also gave her a book about Pope Benedict XVI thoughts and meditations.
Two Italian and American reporters were allowed to be accompanied by the 2 MPs as observers. Knox told them: “I am being treated well. I miss my family and my lawyers are working on my appeal.
There visit was due to Maria Cantwell, the senator from Knox’s home state of Washington who publicly criticised the Italian justice system however the MPs said they were visiting the American to ensure that she was being treated well in prison.
Knox told her visitors that she would “like to return to Italy” after spending time at home in the United States.
“She said she was scared because she didn’t know what was going to happen but that she had faith in the Italian legal system,” said Mr Girlanda.
“We visited the prison and Amanda in the light of the controversy that erupted last week between America and Italy and we wanted to make sure that the prison and Amanda were fine.”
“I don’t understand many things, but I have to accept them, things that for me don’t always seem very fair.”
She also added that she felt “horrendous” when she was convicted and that “The guards helped me out. They held me all night” when she was at her cell.
Meredith, from Coulsdon, Surrey, was in Perugia as part of her Leeds University European Studies degree and had only been in Italy for two months when she was murdered in Nov 2007.
People who write such long comments are absolutely crazy. The girl is innocent and so is her (then) boyfriend. The media was given leaks by a corrupt Prosecution. He’s goin down.
The evidence against Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito is overwhelming.
Amanda Knox’s DNA was found on:
1. On the double DNA knife and a number of independent forensic experts – Dr. Patrizia Stefanoni, Dr. Renato Biondo and Professor Francesca Torricelli – categorically stated that Meredith’s DNA was on the blade.
2. Mixed with Meredith’s blood on the ledge of the basin.
3. Mixed with Meredith’s blood on the bidet.
4. Mixed with Meredith blood on a box of Q Tip cotton swabs.
5. Mixed with Meredith’s blood in the hallway.
6. Mixed with Meredith’s blood on the floor of Filomena’s room, where the break-in was staged.
7. On Meredith’s bra according to Dr. Stefanoni AND Raffaele Sollecito’s forensic expert, Professor Vinci.
Amanda Knox’s footprints were found set in Meredith’s blood in two places in the hallway of the new wing of the cottage. One print was exiting her own room, and one print was outside Meredith’s room, facing into the room. These bloody footprints were only revealed under luminol.
A woman’s bloody shoeprint, which matched Amanda Knox’s foot size, was found on a pillow under Meredith’s body. The bloody shoeprint was incompatible with Meredith’s shoe size.
Two independent imprint experts categorically excluded the possibility that the bloody footprint on the blue bathmat could belong to Rudy Guede. Lorenzo Rinaldi stated:
“You can see clearly that this bloody footprint on the rug does not belong to Mr. Guede, but you can see that it is compatible with Sollecito.”
The other imprint expert print expert testified that the bloody footprint on the blue bathmat matched the precise characteristics of Sollecito’s foot.
An abundant amount of Raffaele Sollecito’s DNA was found on Meredith’s bra clasp. Sollecito must have applied considerable pressure to the clasp in order to have left so much DNA. The hooks on the clasp were damaged which confirms that Sollecito had gripped them tightly.
According to Judge Massei and Judge Cristiani, Rudy Guede’s visible bloody footprints lead straight out of Meredith’s room and out of the house. He didn’t lock Meredith’s door, remove his trainers, go into Filomena’s room or the bathroom that Meredith and Knox shared.
He didn’t scale the vertical wall outside Filomena’s room or gain access through the window. The break-in was clearly staged. This indicates that somebody who lived at the cottage was trying to deflect attention away from themselves and give the impression that a stranger had broken in and killed Meredith.
Guede had no reason to stage the break-in and there was no physical evidence that he went into Filomena’s room or the bathroom. The scientific police found a mixture of Knox’s DNA and Meredith’s blood on the floor in Filomena’s room. They also found irrefutable proof that Knox and Sollecito had tracked Meredith’s blood into the bathroom.
The murder dynamic implicates Knox and Sollecito.
Barbie Nadeau wrote the following:
“Countless forensic experts, including those who performed the autopsies on Kercher’s body, have testified that more than one person killed her based on the size and location of her injuries and the fact that she didn’t fight back—no hair or skin was found under her fingernails.”
Judge Paolo Micheli claimed that Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito knew precise details about Meredith’s murder that they could have only known if they were present when she was killed.
Amanda Knox voluntarily admitted that she involved in Meredith’s murder in her handwritten note to the police on 6 November 2007. She stated on at least four separate occasions that she was at the cottage when Meredith was killed. She also claimed that Sollecito was at the cottage.
Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito both gave multiple conflicting alibis and lied repeatedly. Their lies were exposed by telephone and computer records, and by CCTV footage. Neither Knox nor Sollecito have credible alibis for the night of the murder despite three attempt each. At the trial, Sollecito refused to corroborate Knox’s alibi that she was at his apartment.
Legal expert Stefano Maffei stated the following:
“There were 19 judges who looked at the evidence over the course of two years, faced with decisions on pre-trial detention, review of such detention, committal to trial, judgment on criminal responsibility. They all agreed, at all times, that the evidence was overwhelming.”