![]() The American’s good looks and conflicting portrayals of her personality helped fuel worldwide interest in the case, which has spawned more than a dozen books and a television movie.ĭubbed “Foxy Knoxy” by some in the press, the former University of Washington student has been alternately cast by prosecutors as a cunning young woman with a penchant for extreme sex games or by her supporters as a naive victim of bumbling Italian police and unreliable forensic evidence. Knox was sentenced to 26 years in prison and Sollecito to 25 years and prosecutors on Saturday asked the court to increase their terms to life. “If she had no reason to lie, why did she lie?” “Amanda Knox loved strong emotions and dangerous games,” the lawyer said. Knox looking gaunt and tense, stared straight ahead as Pacelli urged the jury panel of lay and professional judges to look past the American’s “mask of an impostor.” This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. “We’re not talking about the girl you’re seeing today, who has been through four years of prison.” “Amanda should be judged based on her personality when the crime occurred in November 2007 and at that time she was a concentrated mix of sex, drugs and alcohol,” Pacelli said. He said the American was a liar who irked Kercher with dirty bathroom habits and because she brought back men to their shared apartment. Pacelli told the appeals court that Knox’s lies destroyed his client’s image in an instant. ![]() Lumumba, who was arrested, was cleared and successfully sued the American for slander. Knox, 24, later retracted the accusation, saying she incriminated Lumumba under pressure from police who threatened her with 30 years in jail. “Amanda is one thing and another - that is, both Saint Maria Goretti and a satanic, diabolic, she-devil given to borderline behavior,” his lawyer Carlo Pacelli told the court, referring to a Catholic saint associated with purity, young women and rape victims. The student from Seattle initially accused Congolese bar owner Patrick Lumumba of killing Kercher, whose half-naked body was found with a deep stab wound in the throat. Manage Print Subscription / Tax Receipt. ![]()
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