Tuesday, April 02, 2024
Nailing In Advance Amanda Knox’s Expected Lie-A-Thon At 10 April Retrial #2
Posted by KrissyG
Florence courts, venue of callunia retrial
Recap of Knox’s and Sollecito’s earliest written records
The Recorded Statement taken from Amanda Knox re the afternoon and evening of 2 Nov 2007 is timed at 3:30pm. Dr Mignini had arrived about 3:00pm. What jumps out is the following statement:
Amanda Knox [statement 2 November 2007]
“Around 5 pm I left my house together with Raffaele to go to his house where we stayed the whole evening and the night.”
So, from having been at Via della Pergola for lunch, during which time, Sollecito joined her, and Meredith had got out of bed after arriving home in the early hours, who according to Knox and Sollecito, still had the remains of vampire makeup on her chin, was wearing her ex-boyfriend’s jeans, and had gone out at four, “Without saying where she was going”, the pair claim to have gone straight to Sollecito’s apartment in Via Garibaldi, ‘At about five’.
The next written record we have comes from Knox’ email home to 25 people in her address book:
Amanda Knox [email Sunday 4 Nov 2007, in the early hours circa 36 hours or so after Meredith’s body was found]
“meredith came out of the shower and grabbed some laundry or put some laundry in, one or the other and returned into her room after saying hi to raffael. after lunch i began to play guitar with raffael and meredith came out of her room and went to the door. she said bye and left for the day. it was the last time i saw her alive.
after a little while of playing guitar me and raffael went to his house to watch movies and after to eat dinner and generally spend the evening and night indoors. [sic]”
The next written record is Sollecito’s first written statement to the police:
Raffale Sollecito [November 5th 2007 at 22:40 in the offices of the Flying Squad of the Perugia Police Headquarters]
“QA Around 16:00 Meredith left in a hurry without saying where she was going. Amanda and I stayed home until about 17:30-18:00.
QA We left the house, we went into town, but I don’t remember what we did.
QA We stayed there from 18:00 until 20:30/21:00. At 21:00 I went home alone because Amanda told me that she was going to go to the pub Le Chic because she wanted to meet some friends.”
For the first time we are made aware that the pair went somewhere after leaving Via della Pergola at between ‘5:30 and 6:00’ according to Raffaele’s statement, this glides neatly into Popovic’s visit at 6:00pm at Raff’s abode. No visible gaps in the timeline here.
Next comes Knox’ handwritten statement to the police:
Amanda Knox [Handwritten Statement to the police 6 Nov 2007]
‘Thursday, November 1st I saw Meredith the last time at my house when she left around 3 or 4 in the afternoon. Raffaele was with me at the time. We, Raffaele and I, stayed at my house for a little while longer and around 5 in the evening we left to watch the movie Amelie at his house.’
So Knox says they left at 5:00 – as she set out in the email home, above, whilst Sollecito makes it an hour later. So, we are led to believe, they didn’t stay in town long at all, and in any case, ‘I don’t remember what we did’.
This is a big red flag. When people say, ‘I don’t remember’, they are telling you they recall an event, but are unable to retrieve it from their memory. In fact, Knox and Sollecito do not even try to ‘remember’, not even when elite detectives are carrying out a crucial murder investigation of your girlfriend’s own roommate. A person who was not involved would surely say, ‘I don’t know’ when asked a straight question, not ‘I don’t recall’.
Sollecito sticks to his script: ‘We left via della Pergola at six’:
Raffaele Sollecito [7 Nov 2007 Prison diary]
“An amusing thing I remember is that Meredith was wearing a pair of men’s jeans which belonged to her ex‐boyfriend in England. She left quickly around 4 pm, not saying where she was going. Meanwhile, Amanda and I stayed there until around 6 pm and we began to smoke cannabis.
My problems start from this moment because I have confused memories. Firstly, Amanda and I went to the centre going from Piazza Grimana to Corso Vannucci passing behind the University for Foreigners and ending up in Piazza Morlacchi (we always take that road). Then I do not remember but presumably we went shopping for groceries. We returned to my house at around 8 ‐ 8:30 pm and there I made another joint and, since it was a holiday, I took everything with extreme tranquillity, without the slightest intention of going out since it was cold outside.”
Note the signifier, informing the reader, ‘it was cold outside’ implying, ‘therefore we would not have gone out that night’.
So, whilst Sollecito on 7 Nov 2007 jotted in his Prison Diary they were out between ‘six and eight’, Amanda writes to her lawyers a couple of days later adhering firmly to her script of not going anywhere at all.
Amanda Knox [Letter to her Lawyers 9 Nov 2007]
“Around 3 or 4 Meredith left the house wearing light-colored clothing, and all she said was “Ciao”. She didn’t say where she was going. I continued playing guitar and after a while Raffaele and I left my house, probably around 5pm.
We went to his house and the first thing we did was get comfortable.”
Then comes Knox’ next written affirmation of what she did the day of the murder:
Amanda Knox [Page 1223 Prison diary27 Nov 2007]
“Here is what I did that night:
5pm: Left my house with Raffaele and walked to his apartment.
5:05pm - ???: (1) Used the computer to look up songs to play on the guitar.
(2) Read Harry Potter in German w/Raffaele.
(3) Watched Amelie.
(4) Prepared and ate dinner – Fish.
(5) While cleaning the dishes a bunch of water spilled on the floor.
(6) We tried to soak up a little with small towels but there was too much.
(7) Raffaele rolled a joint.
(8) We smoked the joint together and talked.
(9) We had sex.
(10) We fell asleep.
It’s that simple.”
Still no mention of going into the old town. None. Note the qualifier, “It’s that simple”. Note the triple question mark as if she is unsure it took half an hour to an hour to arrive at Sollecito’s, when it would only have been five or ten minutes away, at most.
Raffaele helpfully offers us an insight in his book several years later as to why he revealed – even if Amanda NEVER does, not once – they went into town in his police statement of 5 Nov 2007.
Andrew Gumbel and Raffaele Sollecito [From Honor Bound 2012]
P 17
“It was the last time I ever saw [Meredith Kercher].
Amanda and I smoked a joint before leaving the house on Via della Pergola, wandered into town for shopping before remembering we had enough for dinner already, and headed back to my place.”P53 (in the Questura 5 Nov 2007)
“I mentioned [to police] Amanda and I had gone out shopping, something I had apparently omitted in my previous statements.” [note the plural].
So, we see, Sollecito has not voluntarily offered the information ‘We went into town’ either, on the afternoon of 1 Nov 2007. He concedes he only proffered it, because the police brought it up. When asked the purpose of the trip, he claims they went ‘shopping’, but on not being able to prove they bought anything via receipts nor state which shops the pair frequented, Sollecito had to retract this claim, by now adding to his 6 Nov 2007 official police statement, later, that once there, they suddenly realised ‘We had enough for dinner already’.
So, we are led by this to conclude the purpose of the expedition into the old town was ‘shopping for dinner’.
So Sollecito says they set out to do something – shopping - but then didn’t do it. Sollecito omits to even mention to police going into the old town, and Knox persistently does not mention it at all, even though Sollecito told police she was with him, in a signed statement. He only mentions it when detectives ask him why he omitted to in the earlier police statements.
Sollecito then suddenly remembers this implied unimportant detail and tells the police they were there, shopping. But wait. The pair then suddenly do not do any shopping at all because once there, they realise they ‘already had’ provisions for the evening meal. Amanda Knox makes clear that the evening meal was FISH. Yet she claims she couldn’t remember exactly what she did at Sollecito’s, for at least three weeks. (Fishy indeed.)
Astonishingly, years later, Knox still refuses to mention the pair’s mysterious excursion. Here in her book Amanda Knox resolutely omits the detail of ‘going into the old town’.
Amanda Knox [Waiting to be Heard 2013]
P61
“Sometime between 4:00pm and 5pm we left to go to his place.”
There then follows filler sentences about how “we wanted a quiet cozy night in.
As we walked along, I was telling Raffaele that Amélie was my all time favourite movie.
‘Really?’ he asked. ‘I’ve never seen it.”
[Forgetting completely, forensic police discovered he’d downloaded the movie way back on 28 Oct 2007].
“Oh my God,’ I said, unbelieving. ‘You have to see it right this second. You’ll love it.”
The narrative then completely jumps to:
“Not long after we got back to Raffaele’s place, his doorbell rang.” [Enter first alibi Jovanna Popovic, whom Raff states appeared at 6:00pm].
A whole hour is omitted. One whole hour to get back to Raff’s, just around the corner, four to ten minutes away at the outside. And once again Sollecito sets out to help Popovic with her suitcase but that doesn’t actually happen after all, either.
From all the evasions and omissions we see that what happened between 4:00pm and 9:00pm on the afternoon of the murder and where the pair went, is deeply significant. The trip into the old town which took up to two to five hours of their time seems rather more sinister than some kind of coyness or embarrassment about perhaps buying some drugs. They talk quite openly about smoking dope in their police statements and books.
In his statement to police on 5 Nov 2007, Sollecito claims he came home alone from town at “20:30/21:00”. As we now know, the pair both switched off their phones together, between 20:45 and 21:00, so we can be sure this time is supremely salient. Meredith was on her way back around then. From Knox not ever mentioning the trip into town, it could be she indeed never did go into town, and that Raff went alone; after all it was Amanda, Popovic claimed to have seen at six.
When Knox wrote in her follow-up memorandum to the police – which was not allowed to be used as evidence in court – after having named Patrick Lumumba as the perpetrator, she portrays herself as having been dreadfully confused. But the importance of concealing ‘going into town’ between 4:00pm and 6:00pm seems to be closely connected to what happened vis-à-vis Patrik Lumumba-cum-Rudi Guede.
Amanda Knox [memo to police 6 November 2007]
“In my mind I saw Patrik in flashes of blurred images. I saw him near the basketball court. I saw him at my front door. I saw myself cowering in the kitchen with my hands over my ears because in my head I could hear Meredith screaming. But I’ve said this many times so as to make myself clear: these things seem unreal to me, like a dream, and I am unsure if they are real things that happened or are just dreams my mind has made to try to answer the questions in my head and the questions I am being asked.”
And indeed, the annulling final Fifth Chamber confirms that Knox, as a finding of fact, covered up for Guede by naming Lumumba.
Can we really believe Knox was simply stressed out by the police when she named Lumumba? If so, why the great desperation to conceal what she did between 16:00 and 21:00?
And what were her exact whereabouts when her room mate was killed?
Comments
She was such a dithery 20-year-old! Why couldn’t she remember where she was and what she was doing, especially on such a notable night, on which a housemate was murdered? Drugs cannot really account for that, imho.
Posted by Earthling on 04/07/24 at 06:03 PM | #
Proceedings should have commenced in Florence. No new news yet. This is from The Guardian today. Anyone doubt that it is true?!
Knox, 36, was planning to attend the retrial on Wednesday at Florence’s appeals court but her lawyer, Carlo Dalla Vedova, told Ansa news agency that she remained in the US as “she is busy taking care of her two young children, one of whom was born recently”.
Note how it is always Dalla Vedova driving this. The other main lawyer, Ghirga, walked off the team years ago and the perception in Perugia legal circles is that he always believed in her guilt.
Dalla Vedova is a pompous lawyer from Rome and the ridicule at his many mistakes in court in Perugia really got under his skin.
Posted by Peter Quennell on 04/10/24 at 10:10 AM | #
The Knox PR poodle Colleen Barry did a lot of biased reporting for the Associated Press and then was fired or walked off.
It seems she is back with AP (over 1000 US sites carry AP reports) and still in poodle mode.
Posted by Peter Quennell on 04/10/24 at 10:18 AM | #
That would account for all the AP-syndicated headlines about ‘Exonerated 9 years ago’. AP and Reuters are supposed to be neutral, not foot-stomping drum-beating standard-bearing advocates trying to whip up outrage. Then there’s the further guff about ‘two young children’ as if that is a defence against a criminal charge.
Posted by KrissyG on 04/10/24 at 03:02 PM | #
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