Meredith Kercher “will all the time be remembered for her personal struggle for all times”, the sister of the murdered British pupil has stated, as filming started in Italy on a controversial TV sequence in regards to the case, co-produced by Amanda Knox.
Filming of the eight-episode sequence, known as Blue Moon, has coincided with the seventeenth anniversary of the brutal killing, for which Knox was twice convicted earlier than being definitively acquitted in 2015.
The sequence is being co-produced by Knox’s fellow American Monica Lewinsky, who was on the centre of a Nineties media storm after an affair with the then US president, Invoice Clinton, and focuses on the Knox’s authorized battle. It’s being shot within the Umbrian hilltop city of Orvieto this week earlier than transferring to Perugia, the college city the place Kercher, 21, was murdered in the home she shared with Knox on 1 November 2007. Kercher’s physique was present in her bed room, partly undressed with a number of stab wounds. She had been sexually assaulted.
Her sister, Stephanie Kercher, stated Meredith’s “power and love stays sturdy after 17 years” and that she “will ceaselessly maintain an enduring legacy in friendship and kindness that no media can change.”
Kercher added that her household has been by lots and located it “obscure” how the sequence served any objective.
“Meredith will all the time be remembered for her personal struggle for all times, and but in her absence, her love and character continues to shine,” she stated. “We’ll ceaselessly really feel this indescribable void however we reside by Meredith’s requirements with dignity.”
Knox was convicted of the homicide alongside along with her Italian ex-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito. The pair spent 4 years in jail earlier than being launched in 2011.
They have been convicted once more in 2014 by an appeals courtroom in Florence, which dominated that the a number of accidents inflicted on Kercher’s physique proved that Rudy Guede, an Ivorian man who served 13 years for the homicide, couldn’t have acted alone. Italy’s highest courtroom overturned the choice in opposition to Knox and Sollecito in a ruling in 2015, due to what it described as “gorgeous flaws” within the investigation that led to the convictions.
The Kercher household hardly ever reply to the publicity generated by Knox, who reportedly earned about £3.5m for her memoir, took half in a Netflix documentary in regards to the case in 2016 and has been the topic of different books and movies.
In June this yr, a Florence courtroom upheld a slander conviction in opposition to Knox for wrongly accusing Patrick Lumumba, who owned a bar in Perugia, of murdering Kercher.
Knox, 37, had requested for the conviction to be dropped on the premise of a ruling by the European courtroom of human rights in 2019 that discovered her defence rights had been violated throughout police questioning in 2007. She stated she had returned to Italy within the hope of clearing her identify “as soon as and for all the false costs” in opposition to her.
She had been handed a three-year jail time period for wrongly accusing Lumumba, which she served through the 4 years she was imprisoned earlier than being discovered not responsible of Kercher’s homicide on enchantment in 2011.
Lumumba spent two weeks in jail in 2007 and was launched solely after a witness got here ahead with an alibi for him.
Guede, the one particular person definitively convicted of the homicide, was launched from jail in November 2021 after finishing 13 years of a 16-year sentence.
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