Amanda is getting younger! Look at this image!
And compare it with this pre-murder picture. Astonishing!
As for the post, it's pure promo for the pretty average American girl in prison. The author of the piece, Timothy Egan, accuses the British press of "predatory journalism," but his own work is not even journalism. It's all PR. One example: Egan claims Amanda Knox never had a criminal record, but this is technically untrue. Anyone can go to King County Court and see that this is untrue. She does have a record and she did make an appearance in court for throwing a party that went way out of control. This happened before she left the states. The punishment she received is on record. Amanda is not Egan's innocent girl. And I also doubt that his own daughter, whom he drags into his post, is such an innocent girl (she was studying in Italy at the time of Amanda's arrest).
But my problem has nothing to do with the fact that Amanda threw a wild party—that does not make her or anyone a murderer. My problem is that Egan uses the untrue claim, "she has no criminal record," to prove she is not capable of the crime. Well, if you use this untrue statement to prove innocence, then why don't we use the true statement—Amanda has a record, has been to court, and been punished by that court—to prove guilt?
Then there is the matter of calling Rudy Guede, the African idiot (he really is a slow chap), a drifter. But Egan has no idea that Rudy lived practically across the street from the apartment of Amanda's former boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito. You can go there and see the nice place Guede lived in. It's by the wall, in a tiny alley that's linked to Sollecito's street. Those three knew each other, and Rudy was not really a drifter. He was well-known around town and played basketball on a court that's a block away from where Amanda and Meredith lived.
These facts and links can not be ignored. And Amanda has yet to give us a hard alibi. That is all we want from her—proof that she was somewhere else at the time of the murder. Why is this proof so elusive, Egan? Why? Everyone knows the answer.
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