US student Amanda Knox, 22 - who after nearly two years in an Italian jail was convicted on Dec. 5 of the murder of her British roommate, Meredith Kercher, 21 - plans to appeal her sentence. Though confined to a cell for 20 hours a day, Amanda keeps her body toned with yoga and her mind sharp by polishing her Italian and German skills. She has also applied for a job in the prison laundry.
Inside her cell is a desk, chair, TV, shower, sink and a small storage area. “Amanda’s storage space has some summer clothes,” her father Curt tells WHO, “but mainly it contains the numerous support letters she has received on a daily basis from around the world.”
To keep up Amanda's spirits her family sends her care packages four times a month. "Amanda asks us to bring parmesan cheese, prosciutto, ham and turkey, so she can cook them in her cell," says Curt. She has also requested clothes, books and magazines, and money to buy toiletries from the prison shop.
According to authorities, Knox, who pleaded not guilty, gave conflicting statements about her whereabouts on the night of the brutal 2007 murder. Yet the prosecution was not able to link her conclusively to the killing through DNA. Alleged to have acted with her then-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito, 25, Knox, 22, a University of Washington student studying in Italy, was portrayed in the European press as an amoral, pot-smoking party girl – an "angel-faced killer," in one headline.
In a separate trial in October, 2008, Rudy Guede, a 20-year-old drifter from the Ivory Coast in Africa, was convicted of Kercher's murder and sentenced to 30 years. Knox was sentenced to 26 years in prison.
For the full Amanda Knox story, see this week's WHO Magazine, on sale Dec. 11.
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Here is a 22 year old in a foreign country where the prosecutor has not been able to prove she is guilty and the DNA tests cannot prove she is either, the media has been a circus, so if she is not guilty what hope has she - the european media hounded the Mc Canns, they presumed guilty, and here they have also premused guilty until otherwise proven innocent. If she were my daughter I would not be able to sleep - some legal system that convicts otherwise innocent people without factual evidence.
ReplyWithout fire why can you get smoke? There must be reasons to believe she was guilty. Although her friend can't be alive again, She must pay now for the price of cold-blood to kill her friend, review her sins. If anyone don't control themselves, then they only say sorry for their sins without punishments, it is unfair for victims. I agree that This world shd get a rule: cold blooded killer should be hang up to stop killing! Don't waste money of tax payers.
ReplyDNA level is 50. It should be at least 200 in a proper court. No blood. The knife is too big to cause the wound. It's a rort. Too much doubt, set her free. Her big mistake was ever setting foot in Italy...same as Corby in Bali/Indonesia.
ReplyHey Poppy, if you like her so much, YOU GO TO ITALY and give her some of your wisdom and advise. Im sure that would help. You could be "'Uneducated Bogans without Frontiers".
ReplyPoppy,(he, she what ever you are), crawl back under whatever rock you came from. she has right to appeal and is being treated no different than anywhere else. Try and get a FU@%ing education you moron, Might help.
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