(23 Jan 2025)
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Rome, Italy – 23 January 2025
1. Various of Lawyer Carlo Pacelli and Patrick Lumumba arriving at Italy’s highest court ++MUTE++
2. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Carlo Pacelli, lawyer of Patrick Lumumba:
"Amanda has never apologised to Patrick (Lumumba), has never compensated him for the damage, has never restored the devastating damage that Patrick suffered as a result of the slander. After poor Meredith (Kercher), Patrick is the second victim of this court case. So today, Patrick believes it is right to be present at this hearing and ask for confirmation of Amanda’s conviction."
3. Wide of Cavour Square outside Italy’s highest court ++MUTE++
4. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Patrick Lumumba, claimant:
"I believe in Italian justice. I think Amanda was wrong, she slandered me, and so I expect that, even if she never apologised to me, so at least the conviction of slander against her will be confirmed."
Journalist: "how are you living at the moment?"
Lumumba: "Fortunately there is family and many friends, whether Italian or foreign, with friends everything is going well, even with the lawyer Pacelli with whom we have become friends, he has accompanied me on this path, in this whole story. I love Italy, so I’m fine."
Journalist: "Will you put an end to this today?"
Lumumba: "I hope that we put an end to everything, that we put everything behind us and that this conviction for slander stays with her the rest of her life."
5. Pacelli and Lumumba going through metal detector before entering court ++MUTE++
6. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Carlo Dalla Vedova, lawyer of Amanda Knox:
"She (Amanda) is at home, she is waiting, confident and respectful of the justice system, as she always has been. She is confident that this story will end today. And as soon as there is the sentence, we will be in touch."
7. Wide of Dalla Vedova outside court
STORYLINE:
Amanda Knox has a final shot at clearing her name of the last vestige of criminal wrongdoing when Italy’s highest court on Thursday hears her appeal of a slander conviction for falsely accusing a Congolese bar owner in the 2007 murder of her British flatmate.
But the innocent man she accused, Patrick Lumbumba, told reporters outside Italy’s Cassation Court that he hopes the conviction stands and “stays with her for the rest of her life.”
The ruling should bring an end to a sensational 17-year legal saga that saw Knox and her Italian ex-boyfriend convicted and acquitted in flip-flop verdicts in 21-year-old Meredith Kercher’s brutal murder, before being exonerated by the highest Cassation Court in 2015.
Knox was a 20-year-old student in the central Italian university town of Perugia when Kercher was found stabbed to death on Nov. 2, 2007, in her bedroom in the apartment they shared with two Italian women.
The slander conviction against Knox remained the last legal stain against her. It survived multiple appeals, and Knox was reconvicted on the charge in June after a European court ruling that Italy had violated her human rights cleared the way for a new trial.
Her defence team says she accused Lumumba, who employed her at a bar in Perugia, during a long night of questioning and under pressure from police, who they said fed her false information.
AP Video by Isaia Montelione
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