I don’t know whether they were guilty or not. I think the investigation was not done very well. I think Knox is stupid – either because if she did it, she should have left the country or, if she didn’t, she should not have admitted she was there. I think she was about 18 or 19 and suspect a bit of an airhead. Therefore she said things that would, in her mind, get her out of there.

All newspapers make up this stuff. The Daily Mail is terrible for it. Recently, there was a nurse suspected of poisoning some patients. The DM did a real hatchet job on her – saying she was always partying, drunk, etc. A couple of weeks later she was released as the police realised it wasn’t her. The DM then did a piece saying how terrible it was that she had been portrayed so badly. The newspaper is not so different from any others – just that little more over the top. the headline that Knox was guilty – even if it was only ‘up’ for a few minutes, laced as it was with quotes that couldn’t possibly have taken place, was just unbelievable.

We shall see what happens. Maybe they’ll find some more evidence in the Kercher case?

Perhaps we (read: the Italian media) made up a rethoric and simplistic narrative (she is the “monster” even if she looks angelic etc. they used drugs therefore they could have killed someone and so forth) and lots of people blindly believed in it.

I don’t know.