John Kercher said that the verdict by the appeal court in Perugia was “crazy” and made a “mockery” of the original trial.
His remarks came as David Cameron said the Kercher family should not be forgotten.
Amanda Knox and her former boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito were freed from prison last night after spending four years behind bars following their conviction for Meredith’s murder.
The Prime Minister’s remarks?
“I did watch the verdict last night,” Cameron told British television a day after a court in the Italian city of Perugia dramatically overturned the US student’s conviction for the 2007 murder of her British housemate.
“Of course I feel for Meredith Kercher’s family, because they had previously had an explanation about what had happened to their daughter and they don’t have that any more, and I think all of us should be thinking of them,” he said.
“I mean obviously there is someone in prison for the murder still, but one can’t help but think of the time they must be going through,” added Cameron…
But why isn’t this Rudy Guede character enough for the Kercher family? And why doesn’t the Prime Minister express relief at the fact that two innocent people have been freed? Why can’t these Brits see things the American way? This is very puzzling indeed.
Speaking from the family home in Coulsdon, Surrey, Mr Kercher told the Daily Mirror: “It is ludicrous. How can they ignore all the other evidence?
“I thought the judge might play it safe and uphold the conviction but reduce the sentence. But this result is crazy.”
Mr Kercher pointed out how Rudy Guede, a drug dealer from the Ivory Coast, remains in jail convicted of the murder but he maintains others were involved.
Mr Kercher said that his daughter had suffered 47 wounds, something he said made it highly unlikely Guede could have acted alone.
“It makes a mockery of the original trial,” he told the paper.
“We are all shocked, we could understand them reducing the sentence but completely freeing them, wow.”
Looks like they believe tabloid media more than the truth.
Kerchers: your loss does not give you the right to lynch two innocent people and buy into lies made up by a criminal prosecutor out to save his own job.
Anybody can get killed by a black guy. There’s more value in being killed by a white girl. The thought that she was killed by a black guy is pedestrian.
No evidence…but it seems like there’s a missing element.
Like someone is still being protected.
Why did Guede get a much, much lesser sentence than Knox or her boyfriend?
It’s weird how on one hand the first trial was “Justice” but the second is a “Mockery” can you have it both ways? A just court when it agrees with you and a unjust court when it doesn’t
I feel for the Kerchers. Their world ended when their daughter was murdered, and it’s such a huge event in their lives that they believe it must have a huge cause. A satanic ritual, an orgy gone wrong, a conspiracy of virtual strangers– something momentous must have occurred to take their daughter out of the world.
The thought that their daughter died due to something as senseless and random as a burglary gone wrong does not compute for them. Their daughter was special, so she must have been killed by special circumstances. Not stupidly common ones.
Who says someone can’t stab someone else 47 times by themselves?
Some of the confusion may come from one of the judges on the final jury. He says that he doesn’t know the truth and only Knox and her beau and Guede. He said there was not enough evidence to uphold the conviction but that there was still doubt.
So the Kerchers probably believe there is still doubt out there. That Knox and her boyfriend repeatedly lied from the get go raises that doubt. That her conviction for slander against her boss was upheld (and hence she would have served 3 years anyway) raises doubt.
That might be the reason.
That the Kerchers would lash out irrationally in their continuing distress is completely understandable. That Mudede would continue to repeatedly assert that there must be some case to be made against Knox really isn’t. If you know of any significant evidence that Knox ever did anything worse than get confused and scared by the Police into talking a bunch of stupid and hypothetical nonsense while sleep-deprived and in a language and a legal system she didn’t fully understand, please present it. Or shut up.
Oh, and because these Mudede-on-Knox threads always include racist submissions by anti-Mudede commenters who seem to be trying through the repugnance they inspire to create sympathy for Mudede’s insane rants, I’ld like to make a disclaimer that those folks should go play in traffic. And not in a noble protesting-corporate-greed way.
Or, people die every day. People kill people, every day. Who decides what to ignore and what’s truly tragic?
The Kerchers have never met Amanda Knox, she had only known Meredith for less than 5 weeks? In their mind, whether Amanda wielded the knife of not she’ll always be the one who brought these killer(s) into Meredith’s life. On some level they will always hate her and blame her.
This is all fine and dandy but I want to know what Amanda’s going to do now. Go back to school?
I was on jury duty for a murder trail where a victim was stabbed 49 times by one person. Good times!
Mudede, you should just go serve the sentence Amanda was facing yourself. You know, just to prove some bone-headed arcane point. You’ll think of something nice and elaborate.
Good thing killers always write up a confession and mail it to the parents of their victims, so whenever we get one of these grief-stricken, irrational screeds about how I JUST LOST A CHILD and HE/SHE WILL NEVER GROW UP or whatever we can be sure the parent is blaming the right person.
the Kerchers still have an explanation of what happened to their daughter. they should be furious with the Italian authorities for subjecting Knox & Sollecito to this ordeal. 4 years in prison, tabloid ridicule, rabid haters on several continents, families ruined financially. their lives are broken as much as Kercher’s family.
@8: Mudede has injected race into this issue repeatedly. most of the comments about race are in response to his allusions of unequal treatment of Guede versus Knox because of his African origin.
The simple answer to the last question: grief is a powerful emotion – if not the most powerful of all aside from anger. And in grief – there is a lot of anger.
The Kerchers, particularly Mr. Kercher, should mourn privately and cease their thirst for the revenge they call justice. They should focus their anger on the man, Rudy Guede, who killed their daughter! Or do they actually believe his alibi that he was having a romantic moment with Meredith in her room, took leave to go to the bathroom, and on his return found Meredith stabbed and dying. Of course, his next move was to flee to Germany…with knife wounds on his hands !
Come on, Kerchers, let sanity prevail here. Guede killed her. Amanda’s a non-violent girl who liked her flat mate Meredith and was enjoying her first month in Italy. She had no reason to kill your daughter. She liked your daughter. They exhanged friendly text messages that day that ended with “kisses.” Amanda was enamored with her new boyfriend, hardly the time to engage in lethal group sex with a drifter.
This whole case is insane, an insult to intelligence. Guede, like Oswald, acted alone. The rest is inane conspiracy theory.
Amanda was ravaged by idiocy. I will certainly buy her book, and I hope the millions of dollars she makes will somehow ease her suffering.
The Kerchers need to realize that it’s not enough to have a theory that there was more than one killer. You need evidence connecting specific people to the crime. The presence of Raffaele and Amanda at the scene of the crime was ruled out by the DNA evidence. The same evidence that place Rudy there. Were there other assailants? Maybe so. But they were not Raffaele and Amanda.
All of the evidence except for the knife and the bra clasp pointed to their innocence or was highly dubious. That is why the knife and the bra clasp were so pivotal. Nothing else put Raffaele in that room. Nothing else connected Amanda to the crime. Nothing, except for the bizarre theories of a convicted prosecutor.
As I wrote on another thread, the families of victims tend to believe the people who claim to be fighting for justice for their loved one. We saw the same thing from the MacPhail family, which was hellbent on executing Troy Davis, despite the evidence that it was in fact one of his accusers who committed the crime. So the reaction of the Kerchers is understandable, if misguided.