SYED MUHAMMAD MUDASSIR AHMED (33)

BBA – VI SPECIALIZED SECTION ‘‘B’’

MS. SEEMA AKHTAR | HISTORY OF IDEAS
19-08-2019

CASE
On November 2, 2007, American college student Amanda Knox returned to her flat in Perugia, Italy.
She found the bathroom she shared with her roommate, Meredith Kercher, covered in blood. The
carnage disturbed Knox, who described her roommate as “neat and tidy.” Knox had spent the night with
her boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito, and she attempted to get into Kercher’s room, which was locked.
Sollecito tried to force the door open and failed, prompting him to call the police. Neighbors told the
police that they usually hear noises of girls fighting from their flat, as they heard one last night.

Filomena Romanelli, the third roommate, mostly busy at work, returned home following a phone
conversation with Knox. Fearing the flat had been robbed, Romanelli began rummaging around,
unknowingly disturbing the crime scene. It was Romanelli who uncovered Kercher’s two cell phones in a
garden nearby and she requested that the police break into Kercher’s room. After the police refused,
Romanelli’s friend broke through the door to uncover Kercher’s bloody and partially naked body.
Autopsy reports indicated that most of Kercher’s injuries—bruising and cuts near the genital region—
were sustained as a result of being restrained during the sexual violence.

Both Knox and Sollecito were arrested and charged with Kercher’s murder due to trace amounts of
Knox’s DNA found on the kitchen knife—the presumed murder weapon—and Sollecito’s DNA found
on Kercher’s clothes. Once Meredith Kercher’s room was thoroughly searched, police uncovered
fingerprints and DNA belonging to Rudy Guede, who had gone on a date with the victim the night of
her murder.

1. Who do you think is involved in murder of Meredith Kercher?

2. Draw a scenario why and how you think that Kercher was murdered?

ANSWER:

1.) Following the investigation, done by police officers, its most likely that Amanda Knox and
Raffaele Sollecito was involved in the murder of Meredith Kercher. As finger prints and DNA
of both were found in kitchen knife and Meredith’s clothes. Neighbors also stated that they used
to hear lot noises of fighting them. Their might have been factor of jealousy and anger which
made Amanda and her boyfriend murder Meredith. (Done through Clinical judgement)

2.) I believe that Amanda never went to his boyfriend, but she was the one who killed her with his
boyfriend, neighbors heard them fighting again. There must have a fight between Amanda and
Meredith Kercher which is showing that when the fight heated up, Amanda called his boyfriends
to kill her, and tried to put full blame in his date last night with Rudy Guede by calling police and
becoming first ones to witness as show scenario as they want to police. But because of the
forensic of body, more fingerprints of Amanda and Raffaele are found, which are showing them
as an offender. (Done through Clinical judgement)