Damn, she was Beautiful
Actually the testimony of Stefano Bonassi (the guy living downstairs) reports that as the two guys were walking in the center, they run into three people who were already together, the theree people were Amanda, Meredith and Guede. The two girls had met Guede while they were walking home.
Then he points out that Knox and Guede already knew each other (Guede even told his friends he liked Amanda):
Giorgio Cocciaretto said he met Guede there at the downstairs apartment two or three times, and that evening Guede was talking with both Amanda and Meredith "molto tranquillamente" (very openly, very at ease):
All witnesses recall that Guede said he liked Amanda, only talked with his friends about Amanda, not about Meredith.
The guys downstairs weren't his friends. They didn't even know his name.
They hung out drinking together, let's say he talked to his acquaintances.
You know something
Machiavelli?
Rudy Guede tells it differently, right after Meredith's horrible murder, not years later in court.
Let's read what Rudy writes in his own handwriting that he 1st met Amanda Knox at Le Chic,
barely knew the Italian boyz downstairs, and what he thinks about Amanda and Meredith:
From Guede's Prison Diary:
"It was inside the club where I met Amanda. I
remember very well that she approached me with a
smile stamped on her face. That evening I was by
myself. I began to talk with her “How are you… Where
are you from,” until she told me she was from Seattle. I
was happy because a few days before that, a guy with
whom I’d become very close, who was from Seattle,
had left Italy. I told myself, who knows, perhaps she
knows him? And then I told her I had a friend from
Seattle who studies at UW, that is, University of
Washington, whose name is Victor. At once she said
yes, then asked if he was Chinese. I said no, Victor is
part Russian, and I realized we were speaking about
two different people. But there and then, between one
thing and the other, we began to talk. I asked her if
they played Hip Hop or R&B in the club, because that
evening they were doing Latin American type of Music,
which I don’t care for much. And she said that here
they play Salsa and African Music. That evening I
drank sangria, and it was Patrick, I remember, who
served it. I even remember the price, 2 Euros. Then I
left the club and went to meet the guys I would often go
out with.
It was the first time that I met Amanda and after that, I
ran into her many times, but it was always “hi” and
“bye” each going our own way.
I didn’t strike up a
relationship (with her). I already had my group of
friends with whom I went out.
There wasn’t any
Reason that I’d get attached to her."
"Also, one evening that was Owen’s birthday, if I’m not
mistaken. Me, Alex, Philip, MJ, Owen, Ben, Mike, and
other guys went to celebrate. I remember Well that
evening, because Owen got Drunk and I took him to
sleep at Alex’s house. Then we went out again until at
the end of the night, in front of the “Shamrock,” we met
the two Italian guys with whom I often played
Basketball on the small court of Piazza Grimana. It
was these guys, with their friends, who approached
me. That night I was a bit high/tipsy, but conscious
and talking. By then it was time to return home, but
talking with these guys, I lost sight of my usual friends
and stayed with them.
That is to say, I knew them and I decided to stay with
them. At that point, a girl approached us and started to
chat us up. I asked where she was from, where she
came from, etc, etc. She told me her name was
Amanda, and she was from Seattle. Then and there I
hadn’t recognized her and I told her that I’d met a girl
from Seattle, around before. And she said that she
was that girl, at which point, I made the connection of
having already seen her. Then we talked, I, the guys,
Amanda, while we were going home. Having arrived
near Piazza Grimana, I said bye to the guys, but they
convinced me to come with them to their house. It
didn’t take much to convince me."
"I went to the home of these guys for the first time, even
though it had been four months since I first spotted
them playing basketball together. It was that evening
that they gave me the nickname "Baron Davis." In the
meantime, Amanda went to her house. The guys living
downstairs entered their house. We all began to
critique Amanda, some more, some less, in the sense
that she was a pretty girl. Some imagined doing it with
her, etc., etc… Stuff that all guys do, some more, some
less. That evening, I don’t remember exactly what I
said about her, but to go to bed with her, yes, because
all of us guys ended up with that as the goal. Then
one of the guys (I don’t remember their names well)
began to prepare a joint and I asked if I had to pay, and
they said “Of course not.” We began to smoke in the
house. ”Smoking,” I put that in quotes. We imagined
ourselves, each one of us, with Amanda in bed. We
were guys at home, what were we supposed to be
thinking, if not this? Then I heard a knock at the door
and who was it?" Amanda. We all looked at each other
and laughed.
<snip>
"Later I heard knocking at the
door. I opened it, and a girl came in. It was Meredith.
She came in, she looked at me, and I looked at her.
Damn, she was Beautiful."
In one glance, I recognized
that she had to be the English girl, in light of her Italian.
In fact the first thing I told her was “You don’t seem to
have anything English about you,” speaking in English.
And in fact, if I remember, she told me her mother was
Indian, or something of the kind from those places. I
looked at the two girls and saw that she was very
pretty, but that was the end of it.
There, for the first time, I met Meredith. Maybe I had
already encountered her in other places, but I had
never noticed. That night, we spoke at length, you
could say, all night. We spoke of everything and more,
until when tired, it was thought to go to sleep. The two
girls went to their place, and we guys were left “high
and dry,” as they say."
Guede writes more about Meredith:
"the day of the England-South Africa final arrived,
where I saw Meredith anew.
For the entire duration of
the match I happened to turn around often to look at
her, because she was Very Beautiful."
- but Mignini could have tried to make the 2 different phone charges stick.
