Amanda Knox, who was wrongfully convicted of killing her roommate, Meredith Kercher, in Italy in 2007, says the person who did kill Kercher has been “in a position to trigger hurt to extra younger girls” since he was launched after serving a 13-year sentence.
Rudy Guede, 36, was convicted of 21-year-old Kercher’s rape and homicide together with Knox and Knox’s boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito, in 2009. Guede was launched in 2020 after serving 13 years of a 30-year time period that was later lowered to 16 years. Knox and Sollecito have been twice convicted and twice cleared of the crime.
Guede is now accused of abusing his girlfriend, and prosecutors issued a restraining order towards Guede to remain not less than 500 meters, or 1,640 ft, away from the 23-year-old, because the Italian information outlet La Stampa reported.
“Rudy Guede, the person who killed Meredith Kercher, has simply been arrested on prices of assault for allegedly beating up his 23-year-old ex-girlfriend six months after he was launched from jail,” Knox wrote in a Dec. 6 put up on X after Guede’s most up-to-date arrest.
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Rudy Guede, 36, was convicted of 21-year-old Kercher’s rape and homicide together with Knox and Knox’s boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito, in 2009 after which launched in 2020 after serving 13 years of a 30-year time period that was later lowered to 16 years. (Franco Origlia)
“Prosecutors requested for home arrest whereas he awaits trial. As a substitute, he is been given a restraining order and ankle monitor. I really feel sorry for his ex-girlfriend, and hope she is getting the help she wants.
“Guede was by no means held totally accountable for murdering Meredith, as he was solely convicted of rape and of ‘collaborating within the homicide.’ Primarily he was charged with being an confederate for a criminal offense he dedicated alone. He was sentenced to 30 years. On enchantment, that was lowered to 16. He was launched on ‘good habits’ after serving 13 years…”
Knox, 36, stated that “above all,” she feels “dangerous for the Kerchers that the person accountable for Meredith’s homicide is free, unrepentant and in a position to trigger hurt to extra younger girls.”
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That is an undated file picture launched by the Italian Police of 22-year-old murdered British college pupil Meredith Kercher. (Italian Police, File)
The Seattle native was learning overseas in Perugia and residing with Kercher in 2007 when Kercher was discovered lifeless in a pool of blood after being stabbed 47 instances.
Knox and Sollecito — who have been 20 and 23, respectively, on the time of Kercher’s homicide — spent 4 years in an Italian jail earlier than they have been acquitted, the Day by day Mail reported.
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Knox and Sollecito, who have been 20 and 23, respectively, on the time of Kercher’s homicide, spent 4 years in an Italian jail earlier than they have been acquitted, the Day by day Mail reported. (Federico Zirilli/AFP)
Knox is now an writer and host of a podcast referred to as “Labyrinths” together with her husband, Christopher Robinson. They’re advocates of felony justice reform and organizations just like the Washington Innocence Venture, in keeping with their Patreon web page.
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“Part of me continues to be very deeply indignant at him, and a part of it’s for what he did, however the different a part of it’s what everybody else allowed him to get away with, which isn’t actually his grave sin. He isn’t the one who’s in control of holding himself accountable for his crimes,” Knox stated within the newest episode of her podcast revealed Thursday.
Knox is now an writer and host of a podcast referred to as “Labyrinths” together with her husband, Christopher Robinson. They’re advocates of felony justice reform and organizations just like the Washington Innocence Venture, in keeping with their Patreon web page. (Paula Lobo/Disney Normal Leisure Content material )
There may be an “concept” that “the world type of desires him to not take accountability,” Knox stated, as a result of they need her, a rich American lady, to be blamed as a substitute.
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“Folks do not take a look at Rudy Guede and say, ‘That’s the person who raped and murdered Meredith Kercher.’ They suppose, ‘That’s the person who Amanda manipulated, and he is in all probability just a few poor man who acquired roped in.'”
Guede is now accused of abusing his girlfriend, and prosecutors issued a restraining order towards Guede to remain not less than 500 meters, or 1,640 ft, away from the 23-year-old, the Italian information outlet La Stampa reported. (Tiziana Fabi/AFP )
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The lesser-known story about Guede, she continued, is that the night time he raped and killed Kercher “was simply the horrific climax of a housebreaking spree he had been on since his adoptive household had disowned him a pair days prior.”
“Regardless of leaving his DNA on Meredith’s physique, regardless of leaving his fingerprints and footprints in her blood, Guede was by no means charged with homicide. As a substitute, he was quietly convicted of a lesser cost lengthy earlier than my very own trial ever reached a verdict,” she defined. “Taking his cue from the prosecution and media, Guede has taken each alternative guilty and accuse me.”
