Italy’s main courtroom supported the sentence individuals individual Amanda Knox for aspersion on Thursday, in a state of affairs that goes again just about twenty years.
Knox was discovered responsible in 2014 of tarnishing regional bar proprietor Patrick Lumumba by linking him within the 2007 homicide of her British roommate, Meredith Kercher.
Thursday’s judgment has no real results for Knox, that at the moment invested years behind bars for Kercher’s homicide. She was afterward acquitted and went again to the United States in 2011.
Rudy Guede was discovered responsible of Kercher’s homicide after DNA proof related him to the scene. He was punished to 16 years behind bars and launched early in 2021.
What was the response to the judgment?
Knox, who was not in Italy for Thursday’s judgment, defined it as “surreal.”
“I’ve just been found guilty yet again of a crime I didn’t commit,” she claimed on the social networks system X.
Her legal professional, Carlo Dalla Vedova, additionally shared shock on the alternative.
“We are incredulous,” Dalla Vedova knowledgeable press reporters by cellphone from the courtroom home. “This is totally unexpected in our eyes and totally unfair for Amanda.”
Lumumba, then again, invited the courtroom’s alternative, stating he was happy with it.
“Amanda was wrong. “This verdict has to accompany her for the rest of her life,” he claimed.
Who is Amanda Knox?
Knox was a 20-year-old alternate pupil in Perugia when her British flatmate, Kercher, was found useless in her room on November 2, 2007.
She and her then-boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito, have been initially discovered responsible of the homicide in a 2009 check, which was retrialed in 2011. Knox after that went again to the United States, nonetheless she was condemned as soon as extra in a 2014 retrial previous to Ultimately eliminating by Italy’s biggest courtroom in 2015.
However, the aspersion sentence continued to be.
While cops doubted, Knox linked Lumumba within the homicide. This resulted within the regional bar proprietor being imprisoned for two weeks previous to he was launched with out price.
Knox afterward declared that Italian cops intimidated her with thirty years behind bars and used bodily violence to press her proper into calling the Congolese barman because the superior.
The European Court of Human Rights in 2019 dominated that Knox had really not been supplied ample lawful depiction or an skilled interpreter all through her cops examination.
Knox had really appealed the sentence primarily based upon that judgment nonetheless shed her proposal in 2014 when a courtroom in Florence handed her a three-year sentence. That sentence was supported on Thursday nonetheless it has no helpful affect because it was coated by the point Knox invested behind bars for the homicide price.
rmt/lo (AFP, AP, Reuters)
