[Update] Meredith Kercher Murder - Amanda Knox awarded damages by the European Court of Human R
Jan 25, 2019 5:53:09 GMT
Post by hi224 on Jan 25, 2019 5:53:09 GMT
Brief summary:
On November 1st 2007, 21-year-old British exchange student Meredith Kercher was found dead on the floor of her bedroom in her flat in Perugia, Italy. Her American flatmate, Amanda Knox, and Knox's Italian boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito, along with Rudy Guede, were charged and convicted of the murder. Knox and Sollecito were released after four years following a second-level trial acquitted them, but these verdicts were later declared null, leading to the appeals being repeated, once again resulting in their conviction. In 2015, both convictions were annulled and " Supreme Court of Cassation invoked the provision of art. 530 § 2. of Italian Procedure Code ("reasonable doubt") and ordered that no further trial should be held.", resulting in their acquittal. The verdict pointed out that as the scientific evidence was crucial to the case, there were "glaring defaillances " and " culpable omissions of investigation activities "
Today, January 24th 2019, The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled that Italy pay Knox €18,400 (£16,000) in damages, agreeing that she had not been given proper access to a lawyer and interpreter, violating her rights.
In a statement, the ECHR said she was interviewed "without legal assistance, at a time when there was a criminal charge against her" without any exceptional circumstances to justify it.
"Ms Knox had been particularly vulnerable, being a foreign young woman, 20 at the time, not having been in Italy for very long and not being fluent in Italian," it said.
The police interpreter had gone beyond their role "to build up a personal and emotional relationship with Ms Knox, seeing herself as a mediator and taking on a motherly attitude which was not called for," the ECHR said.
That "compromised the fairness of the proceedings as a whole", it said.
The court rejected her claim that she was subjected to degrading treatment by LE.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Meredith_Kercher
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-46985679
On November 1st 2007, 21-year-old British exchange student Meredith Kercher was found dead on the floor of her bedroom in her flat in Perugia, Italy. Her American flatmate, Amanda Knox, and Knox's Italian boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito, along with Rudy Guede, were charged and convicted of the murder. Knox and Sollecito were released after four years following a second-level trial acquitted them, but these verdicts were later declared null, leading to the appeals being repeated, once again resulting in their conviction. In 2015, both convictions were annulled and " Supreme Court of Cassation invoked the provision of art. 530 § 2. of Italian Procedure Code ("reasonable doubt") and ordered that no further trial should be held.", resulting in their acquittal. The verdict pointed out that as the scientific evidence was crucial to the case, there were "glaring defaillances " and " culpable omissions of investigation activities "
Today, January 24th 2019, The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled that Italy pay Knox €18,400 (£16,000) in damages, agreeing that she had not been given proper access to a lawyer and interpreter, violating her rights.
In a statement, the ECHR said she was interviewed "without legal assistance, at a time when there was a criminal charge against her" without any exceptional circumstances to justify it.
"Ms Knox had been particularly vulnerable, being a foreign young woman, 20 at the time, not having been in Italy for very long and not being fluent in Italian," it said.
The police interpreter had gone beyond their role "to build up a personal and emotional relationship with Ms Knox, seeing herself as a mediator and taking on a motherly attitude which was not called for," the ECHR said.
That "compromised the fairness of the proceedings as a whole", it said.
The court rejected her claim that she was subjected to degrading treatment by LE.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Meredith_Kercher
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-46985679
