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 […]
Amanda Knox, Raffaele Sollecito and the Obstacles to Justice
“Justice is rather the activity of truth, than a virtue in itself. Truth tells us what is due to others, and justice renders that due. Injustice is acting a lie.” – Horace Walpole The Meredith Kercher murder case has transfixed the media in three countries for six years and public interest shows no signs of […]
The Meredith Kercher Murder Conspiracy – The evidence was manipulated from the start
Analysis of a newspaper story “You can lead jurors to the truth but you can’t make them believe it. Physical evidence cannot be intimidated. It does not forget. It doesn’t get excited at the moment something is happening–like people do. It sits there and waits to be detected, preserved, evaluated, and explained. That is what […]
The Tragedy of Meredith Kercher
“We make our fervent pleas for the high road of justice, and then we tread unflinchingly the low road of injustice. This strange dichotomy, this agonising gulf between the ought and the is, represents that tragic theme of man’s earthly pilgrimage.” – Martin Luther King Jr. The worst fate that can befall anyone is […]
Amanda Knox, Raffaele Sollecito and the Red Herring
Alice laughed. “There’s no use trying,” she said: “one can’t believe impossible things.” “I daresay you haven’t had much practice,” said the Queen. “When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.” One of the key items […]
Amanda Knox, Raffaele Sollecito and the Mystery of the Untested Semen Stain
“I believe in evidence. I believe in observation, measurement, and reasoning, confirmed by independent observers. I’ll believe anything, no matter how wild and ridiculous, if there is evidence for it. The wilder and more ridiculous something is, however, the firmer and more solid the evidence will have to be.” – Isaac Asimov In a murder […]