Thursday,
November 15, 2007
The
ANNOTICO Report
Meredith
Kercher, 21, from
The
suspects are Patrick Diya Lumumba, 44, a Congolese Musician,DJ and Club Manager at Le Chic, (and an
independent Event Promoter), Amanda
Knox, 20,
American University of Washington student, who worked many nights
at Le Chic, (and was the roommate of Kercher) and
her Italian boyfriend of a few weeks, Raffaele Sollecito,
24.
The
British Press and Blogs have been calling for
The
American(especially the
Amanda
Knox has been at the center of the Investigation, and an unsympathetic person
because she gave the Italian Police three
contradictory version of the fateful night.
(1)
Knox claimed that she was at the house of her 24-year-old boyfriend,
Raffaele Sollecito.
When
confronted with images from Cameras overlooking her house in
(2)
Knox claimed that she heard third suspect Lumumba Diya
killing Meredith, 21, while she sat in the kitchen and covered her ears
to hide the screams.
(3)
Now Knox has again told cops she was nowhere near the flat in
Knox
says that her stories conflicted because she was so "high" she got
confused trying to remember what had happened.
Police say Kercher was indecently
assaulted after refusing to join in a sex game, then stabbed three times in the
neck before slowly bleeding to death in her room.The
police found Knoxs fingerprint on Merediths face.
Kercher's father John told the prosecutor
that Meredith found Knox "eccentric and sure of herself". And she
told her dad she was surprised to find Knox was "entertaining" men
within a week of moving to
Knox's
image has also been "tainted" by her sites on Facepage,
MySpace, and You Tube (that have now been
blocked/taken down).
The
only apparent blemish on her record during her student days in the
Yet,
shortly after her arrival in
Her
pet "poisons" were vodka and strong marijuana - illegal plants were
even allegedly found in the garden of the modest flat which she shared with
Miss Kercher and two other students. While in
More
disturbingly, however, she also wrote a series of bizarre short stories on her
page on the MySpace website, including one in which
two brothers talk of drugging and raping a girl.
At
the time of Miss Kercher's death, Knox had a
boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito, who is also accused of
being involved in the murder.Yet she is also believed
to have had flings with fellow students and older men who she met in local bars
and internet cafes.Sophie Purton,
a friend of the victim, has said that Miss Kercher
was concerned that some of the men Knox brought back to their flat included
some "strange types".
To
boost her student grant, Knox had been working in a bar, Le Chic, owned and run
by Patrick Diya Lumumba, 37, a Congolese immigrant.
Lumumba, who is alleged by police to be involved in the killing, had apparently
taken a shine to Miss Kercher but his advances had
been rebuffed.
On
the night of the murder, Knox, Sollecito and Lumumba,
allegedly high on a cocktail of drink and drugs, are said by police to have
gone to the flat in search of sexual kicks, and had hoped that Miss Kercher would join them in group sex.
Some
sources suggest that Knox was the leader in her pursuit of exciting sex and
was, in the words of one insider, "up for it". Others are convinced
that she fell under the spell of older men.
Alibis of both other male suspects are contradicted by
intercepted cellphone conversations and global
positioning.
Knox's
parents William, the vice-president of Macy's department store in Seattle, and Edda, a mathematics teacher, were divorced and have both
remarried
PROFILE
OF AMANDA KNOX
in
Photos
available at Daily Mail Site of Amanda, her mother Edda
Knox Mellas , her father William, Meredith Kercher, suspects
Patrick Diya Lumumba (married), Raffaele Sollecito, her home in
November 11, 2007
She
is a wholesome-looking young woman who, before her life exploded with the
depraved killing of her British flatmate Meredith Kercher, had become adept at presenting two faces to the
world.
To many of her
teachers and friends in her home town of
Two years at a
prestigious university followed, then her admission to the
Then there is the
other, secret side of this most enigmatic of accused murderers
? the Amanda Knox who, ever since she was an impressionable teenager,
has felt driven to aggressively compete with other women, most notably her own
mother, for the attention of men.
Amanda's
comfortable world was shaken to the core when, at just 14, the single mother
whom she adored broke some astonishing news: Edda
Knox announced that she had fallen in love with a man young enough to be
Amanda's own brother.
Known in their closely-knit
Of course, Amanda
heard the cruel gossip, that her mother had married a 'toy boy'. It intensified
the feelings of rejection that had burdened her ever since she learned her
mother had been pregnant with her when she embarked on her disastrous first
marriage, which lasted less than four years.
And, looking
back, it may well have been the turning point which ultimately culminated in
Amanda allegedly holding down Meredith as her throat was cut with a pen knife
during a sexual assault in which she died an agonisingly
slow death.
Long before
meeting Meredith, Amanda had begun to show a distrust of other women, which
would manifest itself as she grew older in her
inability to form close female friendships, outbursts of jealousy and
increasingly rebellious and sexually aggressive behaviour.
Nearly all her
best friends were men and, in order to capture the attention she so desperately
needed, she tried to compete with them on their own terms. At
She was beginning
to host wild drinking parties and to take considerable risks in finding the men
she hoped would help her emerge from her mother's shadow.
By the time she
arrived in
Italian
authorities believe that, on that fatal night a week ago, Meredith may have
become the latest and most terrible victim of her resentment of other
attractive women.
They reportedly theorise that she had fallen out with the 21-year-old
English girl because she expressed an interest in working at Le Chic, a bar
where Amanda held a part-time job and allegedly met some of her seedy new men
friends.
A long-time
acquaintance of Amanda's family said last night: 'We live in an age when a lot
of people don't consider it goofy for a woman to marry a younger guy. But
Amanda was at a pretty impressionable age when this happened.
'The girl really
had a pretty rough start in life. Her mom married a man young enough to be her
brother. That's kind of a disturbing scenario for a teenager. Maybe it pushed
her to the extreme.'
Ostensibly,
Amanda's was a comfortable upbringing, but the family acquaintance says it was
a struggle for Edda, both in terms of paying to give
her daughter a private education and her own background. Edda
herself bore the scars of a dysfunctional childhood. 'Edda's
own parents had an ugly divorce,' the acquaintance said. 'I don't know if these
problems can pass down the generations but it makes you wonder.'
Like many young
women from broken homes, Edda appears to have wanted
a baby to love. She gave birth to Amanda less than five months after marrying
the girl's father, William Knox.
The relationship
soon disintegrated and William petitioned for divorce, according to court
records, which reveal that by 1991 he was remarried.
Despite their
differences, they made Amanda and her younger sister Deanna, born in 1988, their
priority. As a teenager, Amanda attended the
Undoubtedly,
however, Amanda sometimes felt she was in a tug of war between her parents.
After Meredith's
body was found, Edda proudly said that Amanda grew up
to be closer to her than her father. 'She tells me things first,' she said.
Amanda received
good grades at school and was 'always smiling', according to pupil Dominick Balsoma, who said she was his first date.
Another family
acquaintance said, however, that after Edda landed
her new young husband - whose name she took, styling herself Edda Mellas - her older
daughter began to subtly change. 'Amanda was prettier than Edda,'
the friend said.
'But her mother
had married this eligible guy and Amanda started to emphasise
her own sexuality. Of course, this would have happened anyway at her age, but
with Amanda I think it eventually became an obsession.'
She enrolled in
courses in German, Italian and creative writing at the
Fellow student
Philip Setran said: 'She did not seem to have many
girlfriends. She would spend all of her time with the guys. She would come home
looking like one of the guys, covered in mud after playing tag football.'
Initially, she
gravitated to a group of studious, clean-living sportsmen.
She dated one,
Kyle Samek, who went on to a long-term relationship
with someone else, and then she struck up a friendship with another student,
Ben Schock,which she implied grew into a serious
romance. He, however, said they went out only casually and usually in a group.
Finally, friends
say she found a steady relationship with student Andrew Seliber,
a drummer in local band Missing Fingers.
He refused to
comment to The Mail on Sunday. But a video clip that Amanda posted on the
internet under the nickname FoxyKnoxy identifies him
as one of three men with whom she is seen chatting. Slurring her words, and
giggling and swaying as she talks to the camera, she jokes that she is drunk.
'Me, Seliber... just hanging out,' she wrote in a caption to the
crude home movie. Notoriously, she also posted a sinister short story on the My
Space forum about a young man who rapes a drunk woman.
Balsoma, who has remained a
friend, conceded that he found this disturbing.
'Normal people
can write horror stories, but it does suggest a side to her that might not have
been public,' he said.
'It is possible
that she fell in with the wrong crowd, but I cannot believe she could have been
involved [with the murder].'
After arriving in
A fellow student
at the Italian university said: 'When she introduced herself to the class she
just went up to one random guy and didn't go up to anyone else. She talked a
lot and laughed at her own jokes.'
According to
police, Meredith had begun to be disturbed by her housemate's alleged
promiscuity, complaining that she was picking up men, including one who was
'very strange'.
Among them was
student Daniel de Luna, 21, from
Amanda was also
dating one of the two men accused in the case, Raffaelle
Sollecito, 24. Detectives claim she has confessed to
being involved in the killing, for which a local bar owner, Patrick Diya Lumumba, 37, has also been arrested.
Her lawyer
insists she is innocent. And Edda, with whom she had
such a strained relationship, has flown to
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