Who is she ?

Always creeped me out seeing her and her BF kissing the day after....

i think she was guilty

thank god she is guilty as sin ........ thoughts are with merediths family

I can't make up my mind. She obviously lied an awful lot which makes it difficult to believe her, but I don't know if she could be capable of what she's been accused.

She maybe never killed her but she was there without a doubt

Well someone was Cologne and  as I said it was'nt normal to be kissing your BF in public the day after she'd lost her friend, the girls just weird....

Yes, I think you are right that she was there. If she didn't actually kill her, it would have been so much better if she hadn't come out with these lies to cover her tracks.

I'm not sure if she did it or not.




But I kind of hope she is guilty because other than the death penalty i can think of nothing worse than being sent to prison for 26 years when you're innocent.
That thought scares the crap outta me to be honest

People can react in different ways to stuff like grief and death and things like this, and she wasn't exactly kissing him in public looking happy as larry. It may not be normal to you and a lot of other people but that doesn't automatically make someone a psycho killer.

We will finally find out when the papers are free to publish the evidence....

From the little bits I've heard and read, there doesn't seem to be much solid evidence. A bit of DNA on a knife, WOW!!. That and the other little shreds of so called 'evidence' can't be enough for a jury to give a beyond reasonable doubt guilty. I get the impression that she's been found guilty because of lifestyle more than anything.
I don't know if she is guilty or not, but from what I can see there certainly wasn't enough to decide that she's guilty for definate.

The thing I never understood was how this other guy (I forget his name) was found guilty, but nothing about the other two was mentioned in his trial. Surely all of this would have been connected.

Just listening to her aunt on Sky News and she's saying that she's disappointed that the jury get to hear the case in court, and then go away and read all the rubbish that is printed in the media and on tv before making their minds up.

They say there's such a lack of evidence that this wouldn't have even got to court if it was in the US.

Rudy Guede chose a fast-track trial because (he claimed) he was afraid that Knox and Sollecito would form a pact against him. His defence all along was that they killed Meredith and then tried to frame him.
I'm hardly an expert in Italian law, but I'd imagine a lot of the evidence against Knox and Sollecito would have been held-back so as not to prejudice their trial.

I've got to say that questioning the Italian law might not be the way forward. Surely we can't be that insular to think that we've got the the knack rather than the Europeans.  Eugene's Lair, I'm inclined to agree about the evidence.

I'm not sure, but it seems that what little evidence they have is questionable to say the least.

She did  it,I think her and her boyfriend are a pair of psychos.

I dunno as I've not been following it but the details I've heard make it all seem very surreal.

(Blimey! I held onto, kissed and cuddled Mrs Crossy in public outside the hospital when her Mum died. I managed to avoid a court case though)

There are allsorts of references to the fantasy stories this convicted girl wrote on myspace which disappeared after her arrest. Also many references to her cocaine and alcohol consumption. Call me old-fashioned but drugs, alcohol, and perverted sex games with strangers don't mix.

I think there was something not quite right about her, she was definitely involved, even if she didn't do the act.

I agree Moomin and the fact that she hasn't disclosed what her part was in it all and her tissue of lies makes her just as culpable as whoever did do it.

One thing though whether we may think Italian laws are archaic, that's the system in place and no one, especially not the American's have the right to question the system in place based on the fact that it is not what happens in the USA.

On a final note, I can't help wondering if Knox was tried for her behaviour and promiscuity rather than for the actual crime?  It will be interesting to hear about all the evidence that the jury had i.e. witnesses and forensic evidence.  I also don't think that her parents have done her any favours - their lack of respect towards the Italian judiciary and jury members in the press have been quite disturbing.  Whilst I understand they would want to do everything to help clear their daughter, to now say that the media is responsible for influencing the jury is hypocrisy of the highest order  - they have been the ones to use the media at every turn and now because the verdict went against their daughter, it's the media's fault

The Kercher's on the other hand have handled this very distressing time with great dignity.

Maybe she didn't use the knife herself, but she was most certainly part of it, together with her bf. Then she accuses an innocent man and tells so many lies that it's impossible to tell truth from fiction. IMO she is as guilty as sin and deserves the sentence she received. Perhaps when the papers are allowed to print the whole story, then we'll be somewhat wiser....but the Italian judiciary allows for several appeals to occur...so it may be some time

From what we heard on the 14:00 news the US backlash has started and, "She is innocent!" and "She is coming home!" 
Perhaps we should take this attitude in the Gary McKinnon case.

So we should Crossy

Quite agree Pengy, from the start she seemed to be damned by the press for her sexuality, seems that that is her worst crime in many peoples' eyes, including the jury who had free access to the press.  All the publicity was focussed on 'Foxy Knoxy' with comparitively little said about the 2 blokes.  How do the experts on here know she is 'guilty as sin'?  Because she liked a toot and a shag?  Hardly grounds for certainty about her guilt.

Nobody here knows for certain but the point is that a jury based court of law has found her guilty. It's the same principle that means we have to suffer Jackson music on the X-Factor rather than the superior Gary Glitter. (see what I did there?)

And the cart wheels at the police station..I know she was not a considered a suspect at the time it seems a strange thing to do while waiting to be asked for details of the victims last known movements.

But fact is, that jury was influenced by the press propaganda about her sexuality as much as some FMs.  According to reports, jury members were seen sleeping through some of the evidence in court!  It seems her sexuality was at the centre of most reports, and people see her guilty ('as sin') because of this.  It's not like she skipped off to Thailand to shag underage girls    Or fed lil boys Jesus Juice then paid em off    And, for the record, I would have loved to have seen Jedward doing 'Do you wanna be in my gang', silver jumpsuits and chestwigs, t'lot   that would have been legendary.

Most FMs were not on the jury so the press reports is all there is to form an opinion on.

I really don't know much about this case ... but Mr Knox sure seems to think his daughter had absolutely nothing to do with any of it.

From the little I  have read, she sure acted  strangely for someone who had just lost a housemate to a brutal murder  .... cartweels in the police station & buying sexy outfits just days later ..... that alone says something wasn't quite right.

I wish I knew more .....

I hope justice has been done for the family of the poor girl who died such a horrible, terrifying death on that night.

Yep ... not quite right in her head.  It doesn't mean innocent or guilty as you wouldn't do that if you were guilty and trying to claim innocence or do that if innocent and trying to avoid a charge.

Well quite....that old chestnut that a blokes a 'lad' for being sexually free...a woman's a slut and therefore capable of anything.
I have absolutely no idea if Knox is guilty or not of murder..as the details of her involvement in Merediths death seem to be very much clouded by Knox' sexual proclivities.

She's without doubt been found guilty because of her sexuality and lifestyle and not only that, people (including some on here) have decided for themselves that she's guilty and have backed their own verdicts up with 'because she's weird' and 'because she's a sex obsessed compulsive liar'.

Bloody hell, if everyone who was a liar or sex obsessed was a cold blooded psycho killer then there'd be no one left on this planet.

I don't think she was convicted because of her lifestyle, but because she lied about where she was - one minute saying she was sitting in another room covering her ears so she couldn't hear the dying girl's screams, the next saying she was at her boyfriend's house the whole time.  If she knew something about what happened, it was her duty to tell the truth.  Imagine the poor victim's parents not ever knowing the truth about what happened to their beloved daughter.

I agree that the "lifestyle" claims (which were, after all, only part of the prosectution's attempts to establish a motive) were by no means the only factor behind the conviction. Of course, Knox's supporters want everyone to think they were, and this has been their central argument - one which has been bought almost completely by the US media.

 
However. what the claims of "lifestyle" attacks ignore is that Knox's and Sollecito's alibis were completely ripped to shreds in court. I was reading an article by an author of a book on the case last night, and he said that "astonishingly, Rudy Guede is looking like the straightest talker of the lot.", and that "His [Guede's] 'I-was-on-the-toilet-when-it happened' alibi is increasingly credible."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meredith_Kercher

just been catching up on lots I had missed  ... interesting reading.