TomG
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As you know, Guede was not a 'complete stranger'. He and Knox had shared a joint with the guys downstairs and they had conversed at Le Chic.
The original Calunnia conviction MR said she slandered Patrick to cover up and gain impunity for others including Guede.
The lastest MR re the confirmation of the Calunnia conviction also mentions this.
It rubbishes her claim that her memorale was just a confused nightmare.
However, you have Ficarra's memo stating that Amanda gave a description of Rudy on 5th Nov., at 23.00 in her list of possible suspects that Meredith might have known:
"Lastly she informed of another South African young man, black, short, who plays basketball in the Piazza Grimana court, who would have, in one occasion, frequented the house."
Rudy was passing himself off as a South African fan during the rugby match. If Amanda was trying to protect Rudy then why did she give a reasonable description of him to Ficarra? If it wasn't Rudy she was describing then who was it? In fact it's clear from Ficarra's testimony that she herself, did know who it was but neither knew his name. It appears that it was Ficarra who initiated the discussion:
"DEL GROSSO: Why then did you say earlier that you referred to Rudy and it was on your own initiative to ask Amanda to talk about Rudy?"
"FICARRA: To remember something about that subject. I asked her if she knew his name, because we didn’t have him identified yet in that moment. We didn’t know who he was. I knew he called himself the Baron by the downstairs boys, but we didn’t know his identity."
Amanda would have clammed up and said that she had no recollection of such a person in order to protect Rudy, but was instead compliant and helpful. Who were the others she was supposed to be protecting at the expense of Lumumba? There's no evidence of any of them.
It's also curious that Ficarra gets Amanda to refer to the contacts list on her own phone for those possibilities, suggesting that Amanda also knew the killer. Rudy was not on Amanda's list of contacts.
Hoots