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Amanda Knox: European court orders Italy to pay damages
Source: The Guardian
Amanda Knox: European court orders Italy to pay damages
American wants conviction of malicious accusation over Meredith Kercher’s death overturned
Owen Bowcott Legal affairs correspondent
Thu 24 Jan 2019 11.32 GMT
The European court of human rights has ordered Italy to pay Amanda Knox €18,400 for police failures to provide her access to a lawyer and a translator during questioning over the 2007 killing of her British flatmate Meredith Kercher in Perugia.
The ruling opens the way for Knox’s lawyers to challenge her last remaining conviction, for malicious accusation, in the Italian courts.
The court in Strasbourg declared that Italy must pay Knox €10,400 in damages plus €8,000 to cover costs and expenses.
As well as concluding authorities had twice violated her right to a fair trial, the ECHR also found they had failed to investigate her complaints she had been subjected to degrading treatment, including being slapped on the head and deprived of sleep. The court did not, however, uphold her complaint of ill-treatment.
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American wants conviction of malicious accusation over Meredith Kercher’s death overturned
Owen Bowcott Legal affairs correspondent
Thu 24 Jan 2019 11.32 GMT
The European court of human rights has ordered Italy to pay Amanda Knox €18,400 for police failures to provide her access to a lawyer and a translator during questioning over the 2007 killing of her British flatmate Meredith Kercher in Perugia.
The ruling opens the way for Knox’s lawyers to challenge her last remaining conviction, for malicious accusation, in the Italian courts.
The court in Strasbourg declared that Italy must pay Knox €10,400 in damages plus €8,000 to cover costs and expenses.
As well as concluding authorities had twice violated her right to a fair trial, the ECHR also found they had failed to investigate her complaints she had been subjected to degrading treatment, including being slapped on the head and deprived of sleep. The court did not, however, uphold her complaint of ill-treatment.
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jan/24/european-court-to-rule-on-amanda-knoxs-remaining-conviction-meredith-kercher-italy
