The Amanda Knox Appreciation Thread

Some craic if they decide to hang her.

Sure she was involved somehow anyway. There isnā€™t a hope sheā€™s going home anytime soon.

Pistol shots ring out in a bar room night
Enter Patty Valentine from the upper hallā€¦

Thereā€™s no way Knox is a killer. How the fuck do you knife someone to death in a ā€œsex game gone wrongā€? The whole thing is preposterous.

I think when a lady goes before the court charged with committing a very serious offence then the jury needs to consider two questions only:

  1. Is she guilty?
  2. Is she hot?

The lady should be acquitted if the answer is ā€˜yesā€™ to either or both questions.

That actually doesnā€™t make sense now that I re-read it.

Ho hum.

By slashing their throat it appears.

Thereā€™s no way that anyone who speaks fluent Italian like that could be a bad person.

The Telegraph had this on it today.

[font=arial][size=3]FIVE REASONS KNOX IS GUILTY[/size][/font]

[font=arial][size=3]1) The confession.[/size][/font]

[font=arial][size=3]Knox confessed that she was in the house on the night of the murder and that she heard Miss Kercher scream, identifying a Congolese bar owner, Patrick Lumumba, as the assailant. She told the court during the trial that the confession was made under duress but then repeated the entire account in a five page memorandum the next morning.[/size][/font]

[font=arial][size=3]2) The false accusation.[/size][/font]

[font=arial][size=3]The prosecution said the fact that Knox falsely accused Lumumba of being the killer was a sign of her own guilt and an attempt to throw them off her trail. He was arrested in a dawn raid by armed police and spent two weeks in jail. It was only by chance that a Swiss businessman read about the case and came forward to say he had been talking to Lumumba in his bar on the night of the murder ā€” offering him a rock-solid alibi. Lumumba says Knox nearly ruined his life and is suing her for defamation.[/size][/font]

[font=arial][size=3]3) The alibi.[/size][/font]

[font=arial][size=3]Sollecito could not back up Knoxā€™s alibi on the night of the murder.[/size][/font]

[font=arial][size=3]She claimed she spent the evening with him, smoking marijuana, watching the French film Amelie and making love. But Sollecito told police he could not remember if Knox was with him that evening or not.[/size][/font]

[font=arial][size=3]Even assuming his memory was hazy because of the drugs, it seemed odd that a young man who had just embarked on a new relationship could not recall whether he had spent the night with his girlfriend or not.[/size][/font]

[font=arial][size=3]4) Computer and telephone records.[/size][/font]

[font=arial][size=3]Sollecito claimed he used his computer to download and watch cartoons and Amelie. But computer experts told the court that there was no activity on his laptop between 9.10pm on Nov 1, and 5.32am the next morning ā€” the time frame in which the murder took place.[/size][/font]

[font=arial][size=3]Knox and Sollecito turned off their mobile phones on the night of the murder, from around 8.40pm, and turned them back on at around 6am, inviting further suspicion.[/size][/font]

[font=arial][size=3]5) The staged break-in.[/size][/font]

[font=arial][size=3]A bedroom belonging to one of Miss Kercherā€™s Italian flatmates was ransacked on the night of the murder, with a window smashed with a rock. But police said the break-in was staged - broken glass from the window was found on top of clothes scattered on the floor, suggesting the window was broken after the contents of the room were messed up. Prosecutors accused Knox and her boyfriend of staging the break-in to make the killing look like a burglary that had turned into rape and murder.[/size][/font]

[font=arial][size=3]FIVE REASONS KNOX IS INNOCENT[/size][/font]

[font=arial][size=3]1) Lack of motive.[/size][/font]

[font=arial][size=3]There still seems to be no convincing motive for the murder.[/size][/font]

[font=arial][size=3]Prosecutors said tensions between Knox and Miss Kercher had reached boiling point over disagreements about housework, hygiene and boyfriends. They claimed Knox was driven to rage by jealousy towards her British flatmate. But it seemed far-fetched to claim that such relatively minor differences would lead Knox to kill.[/size][/font]

[font=arial][size=3]2) Lack of DNA.[/size][/font]

[font=arial][size=3]None of Knoxā€™s DNA was found in the bedroom in which Miss Kercher was stabbed to death. The prosecution claimed that Knoxā€™s DNA was on the handle of the presumed murder weapon, a kitchen knife, and Kercherā€™s genetic material on the blade, linking the American to the killing.[/size][/font]

[font=arial][size=3]They also said that Sollecitoā€™s DNA was found on the clasp, which had been cut or torn off the bra, proving that he took part in the attack too.[/size][/font]

[font=arial][size=3]But a review of the evidence by two independent experts from La Sapienza University in Rome found that the DNA traces were too low to be reliable and so small that they could not be retested.[/size][/font]

[font=arial][size=3]The bra clasp was only found six weeks after the initial crime scene investigation, by which time it had been kicked around the floor of Miss Kercherā€™s bedroom, leading to a high risk of contamination.[/size][/font]

[font=arial][size=3]3) No witnesses.[/size][/font]

[font=arial][size=3]The prosecution struggled to come up with witnesses who could place Knox and Sollecito at the scene of the crime. A homeless drug addict, Antonio Curatolo, told the initial trial that he had seen Knox and her boyfriend arguing on the night of the murder near the scene of the crime. But during the appeal he gave confusing and contradictory evidence, mixing up dates, and admitted to regularly using heroin, further undermining his credibility.[/size][/font]

[font=arial][size=3]Even Rudy Guede, the Ivory Coast-born drifter who was also convicted of the murder, initially said that Knox was not in the house on the night of the murder. He changed his story a few months after his arrest, saying that on coming out of the bathroom he had grappled with a stranger, who could have been Sollecito, and that he saw Knoxā€™s silhouette outside the house.[/size][/font]

[font=arial][size=3]4) Doubts over the murder weapon.[/size][/font]

[font=arial][size=3]Police and prosecutors said Miss Kercher was killed with a 6.5 inch long kitchen knife found in Sollecitoā€™s apartment. But the blade of the knife did not match two out of three of the wounds to her neck.[/size][/font]

[font=arial][size=3]Nor did it match a bloody, knife-shaped smear on Miss Kercherā€™s bedclothes. The trial judge said that two knives must have been used; the second has never been found.[/size][/font]

[font=arial][size=3]5) The false confession.[/size][/font]

[font=arial][size=3]The defence said that when Knox ā€œconfessedā€ to being in the house on the night of the murder and could remember hearing Miss Kercher scream, she was traumatised and acting under extreme psychological pressure after an all night interrogation by police. Knox told the trial that during the questioning she had been cuffed around the head by an officer and told that if she did not start cooperating she would face decades in jail. She was questioned without a lawyer being present and at the time she knew only basic Italian.[/size][/font]

[font=arial][size=3]Iā€™d say she did it.[/size][/font]

Not sure if she did it but she certainly knows who did.

She definately did it, you can see it in her eyes.
The evidence against her is poor at best though so I think she should be let off.

She has to. I donā€™t know if she held the knife or not either but thereā€™s little or no chance she wasnā€™t involved somehow. Whatā€™s the story with the guy she falsely accused? Sheā€™d hardly have conjured up that bullshit unless she was hiding something.

Verdict at 8.30pm UK time

Presume we donā€™t give a shit whether your man gets off or not

Itā€™s all about Foxy Knoxy

Iā€™ve now completely changed my mind from my flippant attitude of earlier pages. I hope this bitch continues to be locked up for a looooong time.

Merediths sister is quite a looker.

I donā€™t know how to put up pics so youā€™ll have to take my word for it

Sheā€™s guilty, but she should be let off, but she wonā€™t be.

I have thrown on sky news in anticipation

OMG here it comes

Can TASE or Mr Totti please translate the exact wording of the verdict when it comes please?

Deep breaths, Amanda honey.

Send her down