Italy’s leading court supported the sentence people person Amanda Knox for aspersion on Thursday, in a situation that goes back virtually twenty years.
Knox was founded guilty in 2014 of tarnishing regional bar proprietor Patrick Lumumba by linking him in the 2007 murder of her British roommate, Meredith Kercher.
Thursday’s judgment has no genuine effects for Knox, that currently invested years behind bars for Kercher’s murder. She was later on acquitted and gone back to the United States in 2011.
Rudy Guede was founded guilty of Kercher’s murder after DNA proof connected 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, that was not in Italy for Thursday’s judgment, explained 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 attorney, Carlo Dalla Vedova, additionally shared shock at the choice.
“We are incredulous,” Dalla Vedova informed press reporters by phone from the court house. “This is totally unexpected in our eyes and totally unfair for Amanda.”
Lumumba, on the other hand, invited the court’s choice, stating he was pleased 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 exchange pupil in Perugia when her British flatmate, Kercher, was discovered dead in her room on November 2, 2007.
She and her then-boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito, were originally founded guilty of the murder in a 2009 test, which was rescinded in 2011. Knox after that went back to the United States, however she was condemned once more in a 2014 retrial prior to ultimately being gotten rid of by Italy’s greatest court in 2015.
However, the aspersion sentence continued to be.
During cops doubting, Knox linked Lumumba in the murder. This resulted in the regional bar proprietor being imprisoned for 2 weeks prior to he was launched without cost.
Knox later on declared that Italian cops intimidated her with thirty years behind bars and utilized physical violence to press her right into calling the Congolese barman as the awesome.
The European Court of Human Rights in 2019 ruled that Knox had actually not been provided ample lawful depiction or an expert interpreter throughout her cops examination.
Knox had actually appealed the sentence based upon that judgment however shed her proposal in 2014 when a court in Florence handed her a three-year sentence. That sentence was supported on Thursday however it has no useful influence as it was covered by the time Knox invested behind bars for the murder cost.
rmt/lo (AFP, AP, Reuters)
