Foxy Knoxy: The Troubling Doubts Over Amanda Knox's Role in Meredith Kercher's Murder

Daily Mail (UK) ^ | December 08th 2009

[Steelfish]

Foxy Knoxy: The Troubling Doubts Over Amanda Knox's Role in Meredith Kercher's Murder

By TOM RAWSTORNE 09th December 2009

The small hours of Saturday morning and a cell door slams shut on Amanda Knox, the American sentenced to 26 years in prison for the murder of Meredith Kercher. But in terms of closure, that is pretty much as far as it goes. Despite the verdict of the Italian jury last week, there remain more questions than answers as to how the 21-year-old Briton met her gruesome death while studying in Perugia.

In the days that have followed Knox's conviction, an increasingly bitter transatlantic war of words has broken out. In the U.S., it is being widely claimed that the verdict was due to 'anti-Americanism', and that there was insufficient evidence to have proven Knox's guilt.

Guilty? Amanda Knox was sentenced to 26 years in prison for murder Those claims have been angrily denied in Italy and by Meredith's parents. 'It's ludicrous,' says John Kercher, the victim's father. 'I believe the verdict was based entirely on the evidence.'

That verdict came two years and one month after Miss Kercher's semi-naked body was found in a pool of blood in her rented apartment. A former public schoolgirl from Coulsdon, Surrey, she was just two months into a university exchange programme when, the prosecution allege, she was confronted in her bedroom by her flatmate Knox, Knox's boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito and Rudy Guede, an immigrant from the Ivory Coast.

It was claimed that, high on drink and drugs, the trio attempted to involve Meredith in a sex game - holding a knife to her throat. Sollecito is thought to have held her down as Guede tried to rape her. When Miss Kercher resisted, it is believed to have been Knox who stabbed her.

[PaleoBob]

Guilty as sin, locked up.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

In the U.S., it is being widely claimed that the verdict was due to 'anti-Americanism', and that there was insufficient evidence to have proven Knox's guilt.

In the US, most people aren't even aware of this case - I'd never have heard of it if I hadn't read about it here. If this girl did what she was convicted of, she deserves much worse than 26 years in prison. If not, she has 26 years to overturn the DNA evidence.

[Dov in Houston]

An Italian Jury convicted she and her ITALIAN boyfriend of murder