Amanda Knox, the sentence for slander against Patrick Lumumba is definitive

Amanda Knox it will not go to prison even if the sentence is definitive to Three years for slander towards Patrick Lumumba. The 37 -year -old American had accused the then employer in relation to the murder of Meredith Kercher which took place in Perugia on November 1, 2007. He will not go to prison because these three years are already discounted with those passed by the Knox in prisons between the arrest In November 2007 and the acquittal on appeal dating back to October 2011, after the sentence at first instance at 26 for the assassination of the roommate.

The 37 -year -old from Seattle was definitively condemned by the Cassation who confirmed the decision of the Court of Appeal of Florence dating back to June 2024. He had appealed on the basis of what was obtained by the European Court of Human Rights which had detected the violation of his rights in the first interrogation of November 5 in which not She would have been told that she could appoint a lawyer and not even she would have been told. The interpreter used was an official of the police headquarters and not an external person accredited to the police, as the protocol would indicate. Amanda Knox, who has obtained a compensation of 10 thousand euros for all this, also said that she had been hit with some slaps in the head to give a name to the police.

The last degree of judgment in the Italian system confirmed that the slander remains against Lumumba, indicated by the then student as head of the murder of the Amanda roommate, the English student Meredith Keccher. He did it in the first interrogation and then in a memorial written freely. Lumumba spent 14 days in preventive imprisonment. He then revealed himself extraneous to the facts, many testimonies placed him in his bar at the time of the crime. According to the Court of Appeal of Florence, “he unjustly accused Lumumba to get out of the uncomfortable situation in which he was”, but he was aware of his extraneousness to the murder.

This in Cassation was the last of the processes related to the affair of the crime of Perugia from which 18 years have passed. For Carlo Della Vedova, lawyer of the American, «It’s uNa a totally unexpected sentence for us and unjust to Amanda, we are incredulous. The memorial was the first step of his defense ». On the other hand, the lawyer of Lumumba, according to what the Corriere della Serasays that “he suffered devastating moral and economic damage has never compensated him”.