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  • 11 years ago
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Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito – letter to the Italian Ambassador in London

31 January 2014

His Excellency Alain Giorgio Maria Economides

The Italian Ambassador

14 Three Kings’ Yard

London

W1K 4EH

 

Dear Ambassador,

We are writing to you as UK citizens who love Italy, its people and culture but are appalled by the way the Italian criminal justice system has failed the late Meredith Kercher by its vendetta against the innocent Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito.

Reliable evidence implicates only one man in her murder, Rudy Guede who was caught and convicted in a separate trial.

The case has attracted worldwide interest, partly because of the incompetence of the police and prosecuting authorities in Perugia and now largely because of the Italian Supreme Court’s reversal of Knox and Sollecito’s acquittal and the rubber stamping of new guilty verdicts by Judge Nencini’s court in Florence on January 30th.

The case has become infamous, not for the tragic nature of the crime itself, but because it is the highest profile miscarriage of justice in the world today.  It shames Italy and will undoubtedly discourage students and tourists from visiting.

Italy has the dubious distinction of being the Western European country with the highest number of negative judgments made against it by the European Court of Human Rights, by a considerable margin.  Its latest show trial is worthy of North Korea or Iran and takes incompetence, corruption and face saving to new levels.  Italy has a broken justice system and the lives and rights of innocent people are being trampled on daily.  Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito are merely the most visible examples of this process.

The late English judge Lord Denning said when referring to the Birmingham Six case, “It is better that an innocent man serves a life sentence than the law is seen to be making grave errors”.  Sadly, Italy follows Lord Denning’s philosophy.  It is time for this once great country to reform its legal system and insist on honest police and lawyers and true justice for its citizens.

Please forward this letter to the President.

Yours sincerely

Nigel Scott

Member of Advisory Board – Injustice Anywhere Organisation

http://www.injustice-anywhere.org/contactus.html

and eleven others.

Nigel Scott: Nigel Scott is a writer and campaigner. His first campaign was in 1986 when he joined with others in South London to form CAT (Clapham Against Traffic), one of a number of local groups that fought a proposal to turn the South Circular Road into a motorway. The motorway was not built. In the 1990s he was a school governor in the Borough of Haringey where he joined with other parents to persuade the council to buy more land and seize a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to expand Bounds Green Infant/Junior School. The expansion went ahead. He supported another campaign to open a new secondary school near Muswell Hill to cater for growing demand. The campaign succeeded and he is a governor at Alexandra Park School which has grown to be the leading secondary school in Haringey. He worked with other Liberal Democrats to secure the election of Lynne Featherstone to parliament as MP for Hornsey and Wood Green from 2005 to 2015. He was a councillor in the Borough of Haringey from 2008 to 2014 and served on the board of Alexandra Palace at the time when its future prospects were transformed under the management of Andrew Gill and Duncan Wilson. In 2010 he joined the campaign to free Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito who had been framed for the murder of Croydon student Meredith Kercher in Perugia, Italy, in 2007. Amongst other things, he co-drafted a petition to the governments of three countries that listed the multiple ways their right to a fair trial had been violated by the Italian authorities. After a seven and a half year battle they were definitively acquitted by Italy's highest court in March 2015. He is married with two adult sons.
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