Ex-bar proprietor who Amanda Knox wrongly accused of murdering a British pupil slams her bid to get slander convicted overturned

A former bar proprietor who was saved in custody for 2 weeks after Amanda Knox wrongly accused him of murdering a British pupil has slammed her try at getting her slander conviction overturned.

Patrick Lumumba was held for 2 weeks after Knox stated she had ‘lined her ears’ whereas he slit the throat of her flat mate Meredith Kercher, 21, in a November 2007.

He was solely launched after a Swiss college’s professor got here ahead with a until receipt proving the daddy of two was at work and never concerned within the crime that occurred within the Italian hilltop city of Perugia.

Knox was initially convicted of homicide along with her then boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito and served 4 years in jail earlier than being launched in 2012.

Nonetheless, her conviction for wrongly implicating Patrick was elevated to a few years however she was freed owing to time served and she or he has now utilized to have this overturned by Italy‘s Courtroom of Cassation.

Former bar proprietor, Patrick Lumumba, who was saved in custody for 2 weeks after Amanda Knox wrongly accused him of murdering a British pupil

Chatting with Italian media, Patrick, who now lives in Krawkow, Poland, together with his accomplice and kids, stormed: ‘My life has actually been turned the other way up.

‘Amanda knew very properly that I used to be harmless, however these few phrases that she stated to the police on the morning of November 6, 2007, ‘… he killed her’, destroyed me in a flash, eliminating the status I loved in Perugia.

‘Now she’s demanding the revocation of the conviction for slander, maybe in order that she might be the one to ask for compensation within the hundreds of thousands from the Italian State.’

He added he was ‘disconcerted’ by her and her authorized workforce’s try and get the conviction quashed and the case is because of be heard in chambers in Rome subsequent month.

Patrick stated: ‘For me they have been horrible years. I misplaced my job and I needed to go away Italy. Luckily, nonetheless, I slowly recovered and now I’ve an attractive household in Poland.

‘However listening to this absurd request from Amanda makes me fall again right into a nightmare. It is like returning to that tunnel from which I laboriously emerged.’

Knox, from Seattle, is aiming to make use of European Courtroom of Human Rights priority for her try, which has beforehand dominated in her favour.

She efficiently argued that whereas being held by Italian police following the homicide her rights to a translator and authorized assistant have been neglected.

Knox, from Seattle, is aiming to make use of European Courtroom of Human Rights priority for her try and get the conviction quashed, which has beforehand dominated in her favour

Patrick stated that on account of his wrongful implication within the homicide of Meredith Kercher, he misplaced his job and needed to go away Italy (Pictured: Patrick Lumumba leaving Perugia police station in cuffs)

Patrick Lumumba was held for 2 weeks after Knox stated she had ‘lined her ears’ whereas he slit the throat of her flat mate Meredith Kercher, 21, in a November 2007

Knox (pictured: left) was initially convicted of homicide along with her then boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito (pictured: proper) and served 4 years in jail earlier than being launched in 2012

21-year-old Meredith Kercher’s half-naked physique was found in a pool of blood in a again room of the home she shared with Knox in Perugia, central Italy in a November 2007

Nonetheless his lawyer Carlo Pacelli, believes they’re of ‘such a nature and gravity that they didn’t have an efficient influence on the conviction which, due to this fact, we’re certain shall be confirmed’.

Knox, in keeping with him, has already had a good trial which ‘confirmed that she was liable for the slander towards Patrick, as established past any cheap doubt by all of the courts of benefit and Cassation’.

He added the argument of Knox’s attorneys that she made the accusation as a result of she was pressured by the investigators and questioned with out the presence of a lawyer can also be ‘completely unfounded’.

He defined : ‘On the night time of November 6, 2007, Amanda went to the police station voluntarily and remained there spontaneously.

‘Right here she was interviewed for temporary data as an individual who may report circumstances helpful for the needs of the investigation and never as an individual beneath investigation.

‘At 1.45 am Amanda accuses Patrick of killing Meredith and takes on the function of witness. At that second the police nonetheless knew nothing and weren’t ruling out any leads.

‘If Amanda actually wished to again down after that slander she may very properly have declared it two days later when she was questioned earlier than the investigating choose, with the help of two attorneys.

‘In that circumstance she may simply say “sorry, I used to be improper, I accused an harmless individual”.

‘As an alternative, on that event she availed your self, albeit legitimately, of the appropriate to not reply.

‘On November tenth, and within the following days, when her mom went to go to her in jail Amanda instructed her: ‘Patrick is in jail due to me’.

‘So she first slandered him, she even confessed it to her mom, however she by no means instructed the investigators.

‘For that reason the slander was full and repeated and the sentence towards her can’t be revoked.’