"Therefore, she stayed with Raffaele, with whom she smoked some marijuana. They had dinner together, but quite late, perhaps 23:00 pm. After dinner, she noticed a bit of blood on Raffaeles hand and had the impression that it had to do with blood coming from the fish‛ that they had cooked. Raffaele, after having eaten, had washed the dishes, but a break in the pipes had occurred under the sink. And water was leaking, with flooding on the floor. Since they didnt have a mop, they decided that they would do the cleaning the next day with a mop that she could get from her house." (p. 67)
"They ate dinner, but very late‛ (page 77). They ate fish and salad. Then, while Raffaele was washing the dishes, from the sink, a leak was noticed: water was leaking below and he looked at it; he turned off the water and then looked below the sink, and this pipe had become loose, so the water that was coming from the faucet was leaking out.‛" (p. 69)
"In the course of her witness examination she indicated that they had dinner around 21:30 pm to 22:00 pm; then she put the time further out, at about 23:00 pm. But this claim is contradicted by the declarations made by Francesco Sollecito. He, as noted, stated that he spoke with his son on the phone at 20:42 pm (phone records corroborate his statement), who told him "he was with Amanda" (p. 16, hearing of June 19, 2009). Indeed, later on, around midnight of that "November 1", knowing that he was with this girl, he limited himself to just sending him a text message (p. 19, hearing cited above). Francesco Sollecito also explained that, during the 8:42 pm call, his son mentioned "that while he was washing dishes he realised he had a water spill" (p. 45)." This fact, which was also mentioned by Amanda Knox (who links it to the need to fetch the mop to dry up the floor), is relevant because it allows us to determine the time of dinner as being around 8:30 pm and before the call at 8:42 pm, in which Raffaele tells his father that while washing the dishes he had a leak from the sink. (p. 78)
So Jovana Popovic, after finishing her lesson at the Tre Archi, which ended at 8:20 pm, returned on foot to the home of Raffaele, to tell him that she no longer needed to be accompanied to the station. It took her about twenty minutes to walk the distance, so she arrived at around 8:40 pm, again finding Amanda, who opened the door and let her know that Raffaele was in the bathroom. (p. 64)
http://truejustice.org/ee/documents/perugia/TheMasseiReport.pdf
...I knew there was reason I wasn't tied down to the dinner being done before 8:40!!!
Does anyone else find it strange that in the MOT Massei bends over backwards to put the dinner before 8:40? He stresses all the information to lead the reader to the conclusion that dinner was definitely eaten around 8:30. He massages all testimony to accentuate that inference, but he neglects or disregards anything that might cast doubt on this conclusion.
So at approximately the same time, you have an eyewitness at the house and you have someone on a cellphone and whose testimony does Massei emphasize? Why of course the person who has no idea what is actually happening at the house at the moment. There is no reference to Ms. Popovic's recollection of if the couple was in the middle of dinner, had started to have dinner, had finished dinner, or if the sink was leaking.
This passage is a microcosm of the entire report. The Quintavalle and Curatolo puff pieces highlight the lengths Massei will go to playup the most inconsequential or unreliable testimony in order to create the illusion of significance and veracity. When all you are left with is an empty top hat.
The key to reading the report in which they throw in everything but the kitchen sink (or yeah they threw that it in too) is to disregard the constant misdirection of the overwhelming "evidence" and look for what is left out for that is the crux of
The Case That Wasn't There.
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