Amanda Knox is Innocent

Amanda Knox is Innocent

Sir

as a postgrad. criminologist I have recently been researching gendered justice and the differential treatment often meted out to women who are portrayed as doubly deviant by a patriarchal sentencing culture.

Often women are sexualised in a babes behind bars fashion and given such huge  coverage by a media keen to sell newspapers that their trial becomes seriously prejudiced . This scenario has occurred in the Amanda`s Knox case which has degenerated into a witch hunt. It suits a lot of people to believe that she is guilty as a lot of money has been made out of her as a media subject. Her trial in Italy was completely prejudiced as a cartoon in the media had already appeared showing the murder with three people present.

I believe that she is totally innocent for numerous reasons, not least the forensic evidence which completely removes her from the crime scene. Her case was badly presented the first time, focussing on emotional appeals to the judge instead of presenting the hard facts.

Some of these facts are as follows:

1. The main suspect ,Rudy Guede had recently been apprehended twice armed with a knife having broken into a school and an office to steal laptops.

2. Guede gained entrance on both occasions via a window he had smashed with a rock.

3.In the Knox case a window was similarly smashed with a rock in an adjacent room to Meredith`s room.

4. The Italian Judge decided that this was a "staged break in" by Knox and Sollecito.

5.A criminologist would think otherwise. This clearly was a genuine break in by a drug dealer looking for money.

6.The Italian Judge says the motive for murder is baffling but probably has sexual satanic undertones.

7. Wrong again; there is a clear motive of THEFT as Rudy Guede left his fingerprints on Meredith`s handbag and also stole 300 Euros from it.

8. At around 10 o clock in the evening Meredith noticed the missing money and tried to phone her bank .(evidence found on her phone records). Guede is in the bathroom at this point using the lavatory(evidence later found).

9.Between 10 and 11 pm. she is murdered and raped, by Rudy Guede.

10. He takes her mobile phones and throws them in a neighbour`s garden where they are later found.

11.He then runs away to Germany: another indication of guilt.

12.He says in his police statement that he left the front door open

13. Amanda Knox states that when she arrived at the murder house the front door was wide open, arousing her suspicions.

14,Amanda hardly knew Guede and could not have conferred with him. Therefore she is telling the truth about the wide open door.

15. Meredith`s door was locked from the outside by the killer and therefore these keys need to be found as they will provide crucial DNA evidence.

 16. Guede said that he had consensual sex with Meredith on a date arranged previously at the Halloween party. Witnesses said he was not at the Halloween party and did not meet Meredith. It was clearly a rape.

17. Guede stated that he returned to the room to find Sollecito stabbing Meredith. This is clearly an amateurish attempt to frame another man for his heinous crime. Amazingly the prosecution fell for this shabby lie resulting in Sollecito`s arrest.

18. If Guede`s story is true why did he not call an ambulance??

To conclude, two innocent people have been wrongly incarcerated and received longer sentences than the real culprit who is only serving sixteen years.

The trial to date has been an absolute shambles and is reminiscent of the days of the Witch Finder General and the Malleus Maleficarum,
I have said a prayer for her in my local church in Oxford