With all due respect, CoulsdonUK, you are now yourself moving the goalposts and blaming the media for it.
Goalposts, I guess it depends on the type of football you’re playing.
What do you mean; are you suggesting that the Kercher family coined this phrase?
A wonderful book by John Kercher is spolied by him devoting half of it to the prosecution's case against Amanda Knox, Raffaele being almost forgotten. Little mention of Guede.
Ok that is your opinion and possibly others, but it was his book about his daughter who was brutally murdered, he believes Raffaele and Amanda are culpable.
What I agree with you on, is that if I had had a loved one murdered, and I had had authorities telling me that two convictions were sound, and that the acquittal was a travesty, I would have been far, far, far less restrained than them. Indeed, that is the one part of this I actually do understand. So I am with you on that one.
But, with due respect.... I've just finished a convo with a friend in England who is leaning towards innocence for K/S, but the surest way to press his button is to say anything remotely "critical" of the Kerchers.
I think attacking the murder victim’s family is a public relations disaster for Raffaele and Amanda, but hey what do I know? I can understand and share your friends reaction.
What he agrees with is that innocent people should not go to jail, and on that even Lyle Kercher agrees. In fact, I cannot imagine ANYONE in the Kercher family wishing innocent people to pay for this horror.
What I don't get, though, is now that "the gloves are coming off", the Kerchers can still be defended - only on the point of them, themselves, inserting themselves into the adjudication of this travesty against K/S.
What does that mean “the gloves are coming off", their daughter\sister has been brutally murdered and now they should be concerned with Raffaele and Amanda’s supporters are going to say about the case; you know whenever I read “the gloves are coming off" it comes across as a threat, you only need one crazy person to take that literally.
Once again, is it only the media which is the problem here? Is the media ignoring their demands to have Rudy Guede locked up? Is it the media who put the spin to it that the Kerchers only focus upon Knox, and everyone else is forgotten?
Certainly from the interviews I have seen they respond to the questions put to them, those questions are usually in relation to Amanda (the media’s focus); Guede and Raffaele are pretty much forgotten. Guede I can understand to a point as he is in prison, but even here Raffaele is pretty much a second thought, if a thought at all, it is the main reason I tend to write “Raffaele and Amanda” rather than the default “Amanda”
If going on about Guede would mean his sentence would be reviewed and extended then I am all for mentioning is name as much as possible, but we both know that he’ll be out far too soon, is this unusual in the Italian penal system, I don’t know, do you?
I don’t know whether the Italian system as an equivalent of a “victim impact statement” as part of any parole process, if they do then I am sure the Kerchers would privately make they feelings very clear.
