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Yup. One and the same. Actually convicted, but not yet serving his sentence because it has not been ratified by the Court of Cassation. The one who dreamed up the entire case against Knox and Sollecito. He was in the police station while they were being questioned on 5th November. He...

On a similar note, I was completely taken in by Karen Matthews' impersonation of a panicked mother whose daughter had gone missing. Utterly fooled I was. Guilty as hell, as it turned out.

I always thought that was a rather sweet little interlude. A shocked Amanda being comforted by her boyfriend. I was completely gobsmacked when I realised it was being shown as evidence that Amanda was behaving like someone who had committed the murder!

They also acquitted on the charge of staging the crime scene on the grounds that the crime scene was not staged. That's quite strong too.

Ah. You think the picture of the pink-smeared bathroom (covered in a chemical used by the forensics investigators) means that Amanda took a shower in a bathroom that was a bloodbath? This is untrue. The bathroom looked clean when she showered. The shower was taken before Meredith's body...

That is so true. The Kercher family have been led into a very bad place. They don't speak Italian. What were they actually told about the case, about the evidence, about Amanda and Raffaele? Did they ever have a chance to get a balanced view, or to understand that the evidence they were...

Apparently there was never a private jet. BBC says they'll be going for a scheduled flight.

BBC said the US embassy had already sorted her out with another one. And that it was possible she could do the paperwork at the court and leave from there without going back to prison.

I'm so happy for them. And I'm not American by the way. What a nightmare, but at last we're seeing the awakening. I do hope the Kerchers can cope. If only they had understood from the start that Rudy killed Meredith when she walked in on him robbing the cottage, they might have been moving...

The translation I heard, on live BBC feed, said not guilty by reason that they did not commit the crime. Not by reason of insufficient evidence. That's interesting, if accurate.

Now, we have to see if the prosecution is really going to go to the Supreme Court. Or even if Mignini is going to re-file the same charges, as has been rumoured.

I think it's a pity about the calumny charge, but it was always likely that would happen. Face-saving, to some extent. Otherwise, yipppeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (I usually hang out JREF, but that site is having terminal server issues.)

Amen to that!

Not guilty! Because they have not committed the crime. Just the calumny against Patrick, which was always possible.

dog.gone.cute, <modsnip> Amanda's statements do not read as an "accusation" of Patrick. She speaks of a dream or an imagining, when she was asked to imagine what might have happened. The prosecution claimed that she and Raffaele had selectively cleaned away all their own fingerprints and DNA...

Thank you SMK, I'm very pleased to hear that. I simply can't see any reason why anyone who believed these two had been involved in that brutal murder would be weeping at their pleas for justice. Even if someone who believed in innocence thought that they were about to be over-ruled, I'd have...

It's probably not the time to ask about what that "other evidence" is, but please bear in mind that there has been an enormous amount of misinformation circulated about this case on both sides of the Atlantic. In particular the Italian police released a lot of "information" in the early stages...

I simply see no reason to believe they are guilty. A burglar surprised by the resident returning, proceeding to sexually assault and murder the resident, is not such an unlikely scenario. And that is the scenario that is supported and suggested by 100% of the evidence. The problem is the...

It makes perfect sense. Prisoner transfer agreements between countries for that purpose are quite common. I wonder if a US prison would be more severe, though.

Prisoner transfer? I wonder if the US prisons are preferable to the Italian one.