Patrick Lumumba owns Le Chic, the bar where Knox works ... Witnesses swear Patrick Lumumba was working in his bar all night. ibid.
At the scene investigators find Meredith’s bra clasp with Sollecito’s DNA on it. At Sollecito’s flat they find a knife, suggesting Amanda Knox wielded the murder weapon. ibid.
Forensic results also reveal someone else was at the house that night. ibid.
Guede fled the country the day after the killing. And it was his DNA found in Meredith’s body. ibid.
In the appeal of Rudy Guede the judges determine again that Guede couldn’t have acted alone. So who really killed Meredith Kercher? ibid.
How the forensic team carried out their duties has also been criticised. ibid.
I found the [Knox’s prison] diary disquieting and worrying ... What was not present in the diary was any empathy, any sympathy, and understanding or insight about what the Kerchers might be experiencing. Professor David Wilson
These things seem unreal to me, like a dream. And I am unsure if they are real things that happened or just dreams. Amanda Knox
All I know is that I didn’t kill Meredith, and so I have nothing but lies to be afraid of. Amanda Knox
The Guardian’s repeated casting of the Meredith Kercher murder trial as a gross miscarriage of justice for Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito is disturbing. Undoubtedly, the case is complex and shrouded in ambiguity and uncertainty. However, there are at least three points which are certain.
1) During the pre-trial, trial proper, and retrial, different judges and juries have, after close and prolonged examination of all the evidence, concluded there is enough evidence against the defendants to find them guilty of the murder charge against them.
2) The appeal in which the defendants were acquitted was overturned after the Supreme Court found it to have ‘multiple shortcomings, contradictions and inconsistencies’ and that the ‘evidence against [the defendants] had been underestimated’.
3) At the same time as she was originally found guilty of murder, Amanda Knox was also found guilty of slander and subsequently sentenced to four years’ imprisonment for having accused an innocent man of the crime. Although acquitted of murder on appeal, the slander charge was upheld. At the time of the acquittal, Ms Knox had spent four years in jail, i.e. she effectively served the slander sentence while on remand. Therefore, she has not in fact served any time in prison for a crime she did not commit (although the same could not be said for Mr Sollecito if the final outcome of the legal process were to find him not guilty). Guardian online article 4th February 2014
‘Hello, someone entered the house and broke the window. They messed everything up. And there’s a locked door’: On November 2nd 2007 police in Perugia receive a phone call. There’s been a break in. When police arrive they discover a young woman has been stabbed to death. Is Amanda Knox Guilty? BBC 2014
Convicted. Jailed. Acquitted. And now found guilty once more. ibid.
‘I was imprisoned as an innocent person.’ ibid. Amanda Knox
It’s Halloween. It’s party time. ibid.
Amanda says she’s worried about her friend Meredith. Her door’s locked; she’s not answering her phone ... The battered and bloodied body of Meredith Kercher. ibid.
Meredith is partially naked ... It looks like a sexual assault. ibid.
There are 40 wounds. Too many, police believe, for one assailant. ibid.
Meredith was trained in Karate and must have encountered overwhelming force. ibid.
At 1:45 in the morning Amanda breaks down ... His [Lamumba’s] photo flashes around the world. ibid.
20-year-old Rudy Guede from the Ivory Coast is living in Perugia. Detectives find his bloody thumbprint on a pillow-case that was underneath Meredith’s dead body. Because he’s an immigrant they have his prints on file ... He is arrested in Germany. ibid.
How did Amanda Knox come to mention Lumumba’s name to police? ibid.
Three clear prints appear in the hallway. ibid.
Amanda Knox's DNA has been found mixed together with Meredith Kercher’s in five bloodstains in the flat. Plus tests show the bare footprints match the size and shape of Amanda’s and her boyfriend’s feet. ibid.
A sex game gone wrong. ibid.
Rudy Guede is found guilty of Meredith’s murder and sentenced to thirty years. ibid.
December 4 2009: The Verdict is broadcast around the world: Guilty of murder ... 26 for Amanda Knox. The extra year for slandering Patrick Lamumba. ibid.
It takes a year to get to the Appeal. ibid.
‘Thank you to everyone who has believed in me.’ ibid. Knox in US
She was young. She was beautiful. And she was in big trouble. But was she guilty? It was a media spectacle. Amanda Knox: Crimes of the Century, Discovery 2016
‘The confession is a signed statement that they wrote for her which she signed.’ ibid.
The press had a field day and dug up everything they could about the accused. ibid.
There are those who believe in my innocence. And there are those who believe in my guilt. Amanda Knox, Amanda, Netflix 2016
Smoking pot and making love. ibid.
There were signs that she’d been violently held down. ibid. investigating rozzer
The post-mortem concluded that there had been some sort of sexual interference with Meredith’s body .. Little nicks in her chin as if someone had been taunting her. ibid. journalist
Why was the blanket covering the body? ibid. rozzer
Then Sollecito changes his version of the events: he turned his back on Amanda. ibid.
She’s a complete and utter loon. ibid. other rozzer to journalist re Amanda
The one thing that’s really bugging me is why Raffaele lied. ibid. Amanda
Mind games being played on her by the police and the prosecution. ibid. journalist
Meredith’s DNA was found on the tip of the blade. ibid. rozzer
We found that Meredith’s bra-clasp contained traces of Sollecito’s DNA. ibid.
Rudy’s presence in the house is undisputed. ibid.
Problems with contamination. ibid. independent forensics lady
Botched investigation and the bungled forensic work. ibid. journalist
6 years after the murder, an Italian court throws out Knox and Sollecito’s acquittal and the pair are found guilty once again. The guilty verdict focuses on circumstantial evidence including Knox’s behaviour and relationships. ibid.
Sollecito and Amanda Knox have been exonerated. ibid.
November 2007, Perugia, Italy: Police discover the body of a beautiful young woman brutally murdered. The murdered woman is an English exchange student: Meredith Kercher. Police and prosecutors immediately suspect her flatmate and boyfriend. The Murder of Meredith Kercher, Channel 5 2023
A third suspect admits to being at the scene of the crime … 20-year-old Rudy Guede, an unemployed drifter, joins the carnival atmosphere. ibid.
Eight years, multiple guilty verdicts, numerous appeals, a case that set countries against each other. The most controversial murder trial of the modern age. ibid.
Her throat cut, Meredith suffocated on her own blood. ibid.
Forensics find Amanda’s DNA on the handle of the knife, and on the blade a microscopic trace of Meredith’s DNA. The Prosecution think they’ve nailed Meredith’s killers. ibid.
Rudy is arrested in Germany travelling under the false name of Kenneth Wade. And he has five cuts on his right hand. ibid.
The forensic evidence against Guede is overwhelming. ibid.
Defence lawyers claims the crucial samples on the knife and the bra clasp were contaminated. ibid.
‘There were two pieces of evidence that concerned me.’ ibid. Professor Greg Hampikian, US forensic expert
Three and a half years after the murder the Independence Review finds fundamental problems with two key pieces of DNA evidence. ibid.
‘It’s a comedy … They’re not clean gloves. They’re visually dirty.’ ibid. Hampikian
In the two months before Meredith’s murder there were five break-ins that seemed to bear the hallmarks of Rudy Geude. ibid.
Within days of the murder of British student Meredith Kercher the Italian police had arrested three suspects. The prosecution claimed they had forced Meredith to take part in a violent drug-fuelled sex game and then killed her. Cutting Edge: Sex, Lies & the Murder of Meredith Kercher, Channel 4 2008
Overnight, Amanda Knox and her lover became international celebrities. ibid.
Knox’s retraction came too late. By then she was already locked up and facing a murder charge. ibid.