Amanda Knox

Human intuition is based on norms. What most people do in a given situation. You have to have at least a little understanding of the culture someone comes from, but then their actions and quite often the more subconscious ones will give a good insight into a person's character.

It is here we have a problem with Amanda Knox. She just hasn't done what we expect of the person she claims to be. Amanda shared a property with Meredith Kercher and so there must be some kind of friendship, one of shared experience at least. Yet, whilst Amanda was  away from the premises apparently, Meredith was brutally murdered and whilst being interviewed by the police, Knox was performing cartwheels and the splits.

She talks of people responding to tragedy in different ways (note she says 'tragedy, not 'grief' or 'shock') to explain this behaviour, but it doesn't. Nobody in their right mind would think of doing such outrageous things in a police station, let alone in connection with such a serious matter. Acrobatics are frivolous and showing off and consequently inappropriate; no one would not realise that. It suggest her mind was unbalanced not upset.

Her recent statement too that 'I just want my life back' seems offensive too and almost contrived to be so, as Meredith can't have her life back. It is noticeable through the whole affair to date that Knox doesn't talk about the killing of Kercher, just her own situation. She wasn't there she insisted to the court, seeking her release. But is this just her latest version of events?

When she first claimed it, her 'Italian boyfriend' (she had often made much of how handsome her boyfriend in the US was, how much he loved her) couldn't remember her being at his place, as she had said. Knox had also, earlier, claimed that her boss at a bar was the murderer and when it was proven that he was working at the time, she withdrew the claim, though without apologising to him. And then, presumably remembered, she wasn't there.

And it is this kind of thing that gets under your skin. Knox casually throws around stories and retracts them as necessary, without a care. If you, or anyone you knew became aware that someone you shared a house with had been attacked and killed in such a way, what would be the reaction? I can't imagine anyone, acting like Knox. She was 'too sexy' for the police in her view and the other inmates were bound to fancy her.

No, the Italian police may have been unable to gather enough hard evidence and got rather too much wrong, but it is difficult to not see Amanda Knox as having been involved. The drug dealer who has admitted killing Meredith has been ambivalent about Knox and her boyfriend. Again, someone who was known via Amanda Knox. I don't know if she is guilty any more than I know of her innocence, but a lot adds up to the former not the latter.

That is not how justice works and so she is free. I wish the story could be discovered for the sake of the Kercher family, but I don't think Knox will help them no matter what.