Italian lawyer who fought to jail Amanda Knox for Meredith Kercher’s murder says they are FRIENDS

The Italian law firm who fought to jail Amanda Knox for Meredith Kercher’s murder claims the American ‘has changed’ and they are now friends.

Prosecutor Giuliano Mignini explained that he now has a ‘good opinion’ of Knox following the pair began corresponding by means of WhatsApp.

It will come as Meredith Kercher’s heartbroken family members have produced an emotional tribute to her marking the 15th anniversary of her murder – just days after pictures of former suspects Amanda Knox and ex-lover Raffaele Sollecito smiling together at a reunion in Italy have been slammed as ‘poor taste’. 

Leeds College pupil Meredith, 21, was observed stabbed to dying in her bedroom of the condominium she shared with Knox in the Italian hilltop town of Perugia on November 2, 2007. 

American student Knox, 20 at the time, and her Italian boyfriend Sollecito, who was 23, had been arrested four days later and went on to be convicted at trial twice. 

Both of those convictions were overturned because of to a startling absence of any evidence linking them to the crime. 

Also arrested was Rudy Guede, who ran a regional bar. His bloody fingerprints and DNA observed at the criminal offense scene ensured his conviction for murder, and he served 14 many years of his 30-12 months prison sentence powering bars.

Knox’s correspondence with Mr Mignini started when she wrote him letters, delivered by go-among priest Don Saulo Scarabattoli, prior to relocating to the messaging system WhatsApp and finally conference once again. 

They now share private news, family members images and ship holiday getaway greetings to each and every other, after building a friendship. 

Since the ordeal Knox has experienced a child female Eureka Know Robinson with husband Christopher Robinson, soon after the pair married in 2018. 

‘Amanda has transformed a whole lot and I imagine I can say that I know her,’ Mr Mignini informed The Telegraph.

‘Now she has a spouse and children and a wonderful little one lady named Eureka and is taking section in a worthwhile job about justice in the US.

‘We have unique ideas about the trial that involved us, but now I have a superior impression of her.’

Mr Mignini and Knox achieved though she was visiting Perugia, with Knox crying and the pair hugging, the newspaper documented. 

He did not share specifics of their assembly, which came about after Knox’s recurring requests.

He also explained to the newspaper that he would like to see a avenue named just after Ms Kercher, incorporating that he won’t believe that she obtained justice.

Mr Mignini’s revelation arrives as Ms Kercher’s heartbroken spouse and children have introduced an emotional tribute to her marking the 15th anniversary of her murder.

The Kercher household have constantly taken care of a respectful silence subsequent the loss of life of Meredith and in their statement, it emerged mothers and fathers John and Arline had died in weeks of each and every other in 2020.

In a tribute to Meredith, who was regarded by the nickname Mez, her surviving siblings reported: ‘Every anniversary of Meredith’s demise gives us pause for considered, but of training course as with anyone who has misplaced a cherished just one – specifically in these tragic situations – it does not get an anniversary to remember them it can be anything you carry with you each and every working day.

‘Fifteen many years has passed in the blink of an eye but still we have lived a lifetime in between – a little something Meredith unfortunately, was under no circumstances afforded.

‘Losing each our mother and father within just 4 months of just about every other in early 2020 introduced its own tragedy but we can take some solace in recognizing that they are now united with Mez and no more time have to dwell with the grief which consumed them.

‘Meredith will always be in our feelings and eternally in our hearts.’

Covid curbs experienced meant very little was known of 74-year-old Arline’s death, but she is considered to have died at a clinic in Carshalton, Surrey, throughout the preliminary section of the pandemic and is buried subsequent to Meredith in Croydon cemetery, south London.

Brave Arline earned common praise for the dignified method in which she dealt with the aftermath of Meredith’s ugly killing, when she was stabbed and sexually assaulted when an exchange scholar in Perugia, Italy.

Arline travelled to the region to detect her daughter’s physique, vowing to fight for justice alongside her ex-partner and Meredith’s father John, even nevertheless they divorced in 1997.

Tragically, she by no means acquired the closure she wanted and questions have the moment again resurfaced right after Rudy Guede, 34, who was convicted of Meredith’s killing, was released from prison just after serving 13 years of a 30-yr expression and produced the pointed recommendation that Knox ‘knows the fact and I know the truth’.

Supported by her two remaining devoted small children, Arline not often spoke about the family’s anguish but at the time explained it as a ‘nightmare’ while insisting ‘there are a great deal of unanswered questions that look to have been ignored’.

Her loss of life in May 2020 was four months immediately after her ex-partner John, 77, passed absent.

He was identified in a street close to his residence in Croydon, south London with two fractured legs, a damaged arm and a head injuries in January 2020 and died in healthcare facility 3 weeks afterwards.

At a afterwards inquest a coroner was not able to conclude regardless of whether he experienced died from a strike and run incident.

American Knox, 35, and personal computer engineer Sollecito, 38, ended up in the beginning arrested and convicted 2 times of the brutal murder and put in 4 yrs in jail right before being at some point cleared on attraction by Italy’s Supreme Court about deficiency of proof.

Meredith, from Coulsdon, south London, was in Perugia as part of her college class 12 months overseas.

Knox and Sollecito met earlier this 12 months in the city of Gubbio, the place they experienced prepared to go to the working day Meredith’s entire body was identified. They experienced not noticed each and every other for ten years and described it as a ‘bitter-sweet reunion’.

Nearly 15 a long time to the working day of Meredith’s loss of life, Mr Sollecito, 38, instructed The Mirror that it was ‘the nicest’ factor to reunite with Ms Knox, 35, right after their prolonged ordeal, which saw them wrongly expend four years in prison.

Irrespective of not acquiring viewed a person another in 10 yrs, the two kept in contact utilizing Whatsapp.

For the duration of the trip to Italy, Sollecito satisfied Knox’s toddler daughter Eureka and partner Christopher. 

A source shut to the spouse and children informed MailOnline: ‘Of training course they have noticed the photo of Knox and Sollecito together in Italy but they do not want to comment publicly on that as neither of them are of any interest to them – and they really don’t want to include to their media visibility.

‘What they have identified astonishing is the timing of the choice to publicise this reunion, [it] beggars belief in conditions of regard for Meredith.’

Knox and Sollecito were arrested four days following the murder and convicted alongside with Ivory Coast drifter Guede, whose bloody fingerprints and DNA had been identified at the scene.

He is now doing work in a area library in Viterbo and has written a book named ‘The Advantage of the Doubt’ and has ongoing to insist he is innocent of Meredith’s murder.

In an job interview with Italian newspaper Corriere Della Sera, Guede, reported:’ I was convicted of acting in conjunction with Knox and Sollecito but the judges explained I didn’t materially commit the crime so if they are innocent who was I meant to have been with ?’

Guede verified he was in the dwelling at the time and additional: ‘ I was there, I’m not denying it. I wasn’t in a corner. I was with Meredith and we had been creating out, we started to have intercourse but I then went to the toilet, we didn’t have any condoms.’

He has constantly insisted that when he arrived out he identified Meredith on the ground fatally stabbed and a male and a woman in the dwelling. Guede added: ‘The gentleman stated “Let’s go they will obtain the negro.”

Guede claimed: ‘What I will under no circumstances forgive myself for is not carrying out sufficient to conserve Meredith. There have been not more than enough towels to soak up the blood, I panicked and I fled. For this I will hardly ever forgive myself. I acknowledge I behaved terribly but I am not a murderer.’

Detective tracked Guede down to Germany right after listening in on Skype phone calls he produced to a buddy in Italy and he was later on extradited to experience demo.