Category Archives: Meredith Kercher

Meredith Kercher’s sister speaks out as Amanda Knox project starts filming in Italy

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Sibling of murder victim says it is ‘difficult to understand’ purpose of eight-part series co-produced by Knox

Meredith Kercher “will always be remembered for her own fight for life”, the sister of the murdered British student has said as filming began in Italy on a controversial TV series co-produced by Amanda Knox about the case.

Filming of the eight-episode series, Blue Moon, has coincided with the 17th anniversary of the murder, for which Knox was twice convicted before being definitively acquitted in 2015.

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Italian court upholds Amanda Knox slander conviction

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Knox hoped conviction for wrongly accusing bar owner of murdering Briton Meredith Kercher would be dropped

A Florence court has upheld a slander conviction against Amanda Knox for wrongly accusing a bar owner of murdering the British student Meredith Kercher.

The American, 36, had asked for the conviction to be dropped, saying she had returned to Italy in the hope of “clearing my name once and for all of the false charges against me”.

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Amanda Knox to face new trial in Italy over slander conviction

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Knox had been found guilty of defamation for wrongly accusing Patrick Lumumba of murdering Meredith Kercher

Italy’s top court has ordered a retrial after Amanda Knox appealed for the dropping of the slander conviction she received for wrongly accusing a bar owner of murdering the British student Meredith Kercher.

Knox, an American who, along with her Italian ex-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito, spent four years in prison after initially being convicted of the murder, made the request on the basis of a ruling by the European court of human rights in 2019 that found that her defence rights had been violated during police questioning in 2007.

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Meredith Kercher killer Rudy Guede could be freed within days

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Man convicted of murdering British student asks for sentence, due to end in January, to be reduced

Rudy Guede, the only person definitively convicted of the murder of the British student Meredith Kercher, could be freed in the coming days after completing 13 years of a 16-year sentence.

Guede’s sentence is due to end on 4 January, but he has asked magistrates to reduce it by a further 45 days.

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Father of Meredith Kercher dies after suspected hit-and-run

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Police say John Kercher was found with series of injuries after incident in south London

The father of the murdered student Meredith Kercher has died after a suspected hit-and-run incident in south London, police have said.

Scotland Yard confirmed on Friday that John Kercher, 77, had died six days earlier, having been found suffering from a series of injuries on 13 January. Police are appealing for witnesses to the incident.

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Knox accuses media of depicting her falsely as ‘maneating murderer’ – video

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Amanda Knox, who was twice convicted and twice acquitted of the murder of Meredith Kercher, has castigated the media for portraying her as a "dirty maneater" during the trial. In an emotional speech, she also described the impact the case continues to have on her life

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Amanda Knox says media depicted her as man-eating murderer

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Acquitted woman says media created story about her role in death of Meredith Kercher

An emotional Amanda Knox has castigated the media for depicting her as a “dirty man-eater” when she was on trial for the murder of the British student Meredith Kercher.

Knox, now 31, was twice convicted and twice acquitted of killing Kercher, 21, in the home they shared in the Italian university town of Perugia in November 2007.

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Amanda Knox: Kercher family lawyer labels return to Italy ‘inappropriate’

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Knox, twice acquitted of killing Meredith Kercher, is to attend a debate on ‘trial by media’

Amanda Knox’s return to Italy has been described as “inappropriate” and “very painful” by a lawyer for the family of the murdered British student Meredith Kercher.

Knox was twice convicted and twice acquitted of killing Kercher, 21, in the home they shared in the university town of Perugia in November 2007. The body of Kercher, a student from Coulsdon, Surrey, who was in Italy on an Erasmus programme, was found under a duvet in her bedroom, partly undressed with multiple stab wounds. She had also been sexually assaulted.

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Amanda Knox: European court orders Italy to pay damages

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American wants conviction of malicious accusation over Meredith Kercher’s murder overturned

The European court of human rights has ordered Italy to pay Amanda Knox €18,400 for police failures to provide her access to a lawyer and a translator during questioning over the 2007 killing of her British flatmate Meredith Kercher in Perugia.

The ruling opens the way for Knox’s lawyers to challenge her last remaining conviction, for malicious accusation, in the Italian courts.

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