I very much take your point, and hope that it does occur. I wonder if the British Foreign Office will have some influence since the crime was against a British resident?
There are three countries involved, and it is much much bigger than they ever expected, or thought they could pull off.
The parents have yet to move to their own trial in Italy for disrespectful behaviour towards the courts. I think Italy may regard them with a large amount of scepticism.
Dumbed down media discourse is a powerful tool for just about anything worthy of spin to simply make money. It's syndicated news and untrustworthy as we can all see. All spin doctors are.
What I see is a white girl who claims a racial defence for being 'white', and three inter-racial victims. It's overtly racist, but not in the way she thinks.
I cannot believe the level of vitriol poured on to the victim of this crime. She has even been blamed for her causing her own death, and that must be truly nauseating to her devastated family.
If anyone is interested what this was like for the victims family, read John Kercher's book, not the media spun tales of woe from two very sick individuals. It is a dignified and true version of their pain and loss.
I wish the Kercher's could find some solace in the process, instead of disbelief at such an enormous and distracting media campaign of bought Public Relations. And I wish Patrick Lumumba could re-claim his life fortune and reputation.
Seriously, how many murderers can afford a media campaign and a Public Relations Firm? Why would you even need one if truth is on your side?
Because the evidence is quite overwhelming?
Meredith was very loved by both of her universities - one of whom posthumously awarded her her degree, such was their level of confidence in this very bright young woman. She had all the capacity to do absolute good in the world and was committed to social change and understanding, depth of experience and cultural difference. That's a huge loss to our humanity, she was aiming very high in a political arena.
But she suffered and was tortured in brutal ways, for no good reason by two immature drug addled pleasure seekers. Bent to a point of amnesia and fairy tales and false accusations. A remarkable achievement amongst very well staged crime scenes.
That was cool calm and collected, because they already knew they had left AK's lamp in there during the clean up, but had already locked Meredith's door behind them when the Postal Police turned up. So they could not retrieve it.
They were trying to get back in to the room imo.
That's why they looked so worried in the images we have seen, - not shocked. They had every reason to be frightened.
They only 'knew' each other for nine days, and were not a 'couple' at all.
It was a very superficial relationship, and not exclusive.
In the USA, it would have been a death penalty crime, like Jodi Arias. They are very very lucky. If they had just done their time in the first place, they could have saved themselves a fortune and be facing release by round next year and it would have been done. They drag it out, not the Italian Courts.
They have done themselves no favours at all. IMO.
