Meredith Kercher's family lawyer slams Amanda Knox for 'disrespectfully cashing in' with new drama

Meredith Kercher’s household lawyer has slammed Amanda Knox accusing her of "disrespectfully" cashing successful implicit the British speech student's execution arsenic the American's arguable play began filming

Meredith Kercher’s household lawyer has slammed Amanda Knox accusing her of "disrespectfully" cashing successful implicit the British speech student's execution arsenic the American's arguable play began filming.

Attorney Francesco Maresca contiguous spoke retired arsenic scenes of a caller Hulu bid started filming successful the Italian municipality wherever the 21-year-old was killed. Speaking to the Mirror, the lawyer deed retired astatine Knox arsenic she continues to marque wealth from the execution of the British pupil 17 years aft her death.

“As I person already said respective times it seems to maine that the initiatives of Knox proceed to beryllium inappropriate and disrespectful towards the representation of Meredith,” helium said. “It is evident that for Knox the Perugia proceedings continues to beryllium a root of income and a bid of opportunities to support her sanction successful the media. Mrs Knox, aft truthful galore years, should respect the soundlessness and memory.”

Mr Maresca spoke arsenic a caller Hulu bid - titled Blue Moon - contiguous filmed the celebrated country successful which Knox was pictured kissing her then-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito hours aft Meredith’s assemblage had been found. The Leeds University pupil had been sexually assaulted, had her pharynx slashed and was stabbed 47 times portion studying successful Perugia.

Knox and Sollecito were convicted of her execution on with drifter Rudy Guede. The erstwhile mates were recovered blameworthy successful 2009 but freed connected entreaty 2 years later.

Their blameworthy verdict was reinstated successful 2014 but quashed by Italy’s apical tribunal successful March 2015. Knox has since capitalised connected her acquisition penning a book, signaling galore podcasts, and making respective speaking appearances immoderate successful Italy.

The filming of Blue Moon successful Perugia has been met with wide choler among locals. When accumulation crews arrived, they were greeted with banners speechmaking “Rispetto per Meredith” (Respect for Meredith), making it wide they were unwelcome. An editorial successful the section La Nazione paper echoed the precocious tensions.

“Perhaps Meredith and Perugia would person deserved much respect without sacrificing the dignity of a murdered pupil and a brutalised metropolis to business,” it read.

Paolo Mariotti, caput of a section concern association, said the assemblage municipality was ill-prepared for the spotlight specified crimes bring. He suggested the bid could person been filmed successful different metropolis successful Umbria, preserving Perugia’s dignity portion inactive capturing the medieval scenery cardinal to the story.

“Perugia is simply a provincial city,” helium said, not accustomed to specified headline-grabbing crimes oregon the attraction they bring. They are medieval, ancient, with constrictive streets,” helium said. "Wherever they changeable would person been identical.”

Meanwhile, Meredith's sister said her sibling “will ever beryllium remembered for her ain combat for life”. The town's politician was forced to contented an apology for allowing the eight-part bid to beryllium filmed successful the area. In her letter, Mayor Vittoria Fernandi claimed she was powerless to halt specified a accumulation from filming successful Perugia and that she hoped the bid would amusement the metropolis successful its champion light.

“I wanted to springiness Perugia a accidental for redemption, an accidental to amusement itself, adjacent if portion of a tragedy, for what it is,” she wrote successful a missive published successful respective newspapers. But acknowledging the mistake, she apologised, saying: “Yet successful trying to support the representation of the city, for a infinitesimal I mislaid show of people, and their symptom which remains raw.”

Blue Moon stars Grace Van Patten successful the pb relation portion Italy’s Giuseppe De Domenico plays Sollecito. Knox and her husband, Chris Robinson, are enforcement producers for Knox Robinson arsenic good arsenic erstwhile Bill Clinton mistress Monica Lewinsky done her Alt Ending Productions firm.