Meredith Kercher

On November 2, 2007, Italian police discovered Meredith Kercher, 21, dead on her
bedroom floor, drenched in blood and half-dressed but wrapped in a duvet, a condition
which caused police to suspect that the killer or killers included someone who knew the
victim or was otherwise sensitive to sexual violence. Kercher, a student from the
University of Leeds, had been fatally stabbed in the throat the night before in the cottage
she shared with an American student, Amanda Knox, and two Italian women their age,
Filomena Romanelli and Laura Mezzetti. Knox and Kercher were students at the
Universit per Stranieri University for Foreigners in the picturesque Umbrian city of
Perugia in central Italy.

Meeting by their common response to a posted request for housemates at the university,
the reserved Meredith and lively Amanda initially hit it off, their Italian roommates say.
They could relax and slip into English with each other, and, despite their striking
differences in temperament, they had a lot in common. They were both humanities
students at large, research-oriented universities, and, friends say, both enjoyed drinking in
all-night bars, smoking marijuana and playing guitar. But their friendship seems to have
been limited. Meredith marveled to her English friends and to her parents that Amanda
found a boyfriend, the brooding, tense Raffaele Sollecito, as soon as she arrived in
Perugia. Meredith and the Italian roommates found themselves unnerved by the
gregarious Amanda's many frequent visitors, and Amanda and Meredith drifted apart.

Meredith, Amanda and their friends spent Halloween at a party downstairs at the home of
Giacomo Silenzi, the Italian boy Meredith was dating. November 1, the girls went their
separate ways. Meredith and countrywomen Sophie Purton and Robyn Butterworth had
dinner at Robyn's apartment, then watched "The Notebook" on DVD. Meredith was tired
from the previous night's party. They made it an early night. After the credits rolled on the
tale of lost love, Sophie walked Meredith part way home, and Meredith arrived back at
her cottage around 9:15 p.m.

The next morning a neighbor found two cell phones in the garden near her home. Worried
they were part of a terrorist plot perhaps rigged to detonate a bomb, she called the police.
The police quickly traced the phones, learned they belonged to Meredith, and stopped by
the girls' cottage on Via Pergola, where they found Amanda and Raffaele outside.
Entering the house and forcing their way into Meredith's room, which had been locked
from the inside, the police discovered Meredith's body. Sometime between then and
midnight, investigators concluded, Meredith sustained the fatal throat wound that caused
her slow death by asphyxiation. From the first medical examination of the corpse by the
pathologist, Dr Luca Lalli, it has been established that the death occurred at 11pm at the
earliest and at the latest one hour after with the scope of a time frame between 10pm and
midnight on the day 1 November 2007.As for the cause of death, the verdict reached is
that was caused by a haemorrhage from a neck wound after the blow of a sharp and
pointed weapon. From reading the first summary of Dr Lalli's report, deposited at the
court on November 8 2007, after the autopsy on the corpse of Meredith Kercher, it
emerges that the wound had not hit the carotide artery so the death was preceded by a
relatively slow agony, circumstances which allow use to date back the time of the
criminal act to between 21.30pm and 11.30pm on the day of November 1 2007, a
timetable which tallies with the consumption of dinner in an hour before 9pm.

Whether Ahmanda Fox and Raffale liable for murder of Meredith Kercher?
Section 300 of Penal Code
Except in the cases hereinafter excepted, culpable homicide is
murder
(a) if the act by which the death is caused is done with the intention of causing death;
(b) if it is done with the intention of causing such bodily injury as the offender knows to
be likely to cause the death of the person to whom the harm is caused;
(c) if it is done with the intention of causing bodily injury to any person, and the bodily
injury intended to be inflicted is sufficient in the ordinary course of nature to cause death;
or
(d) if the person committing the act knows that it is so imminently dangerous that it must
in all probability cause death, or such bodily injury as is likely to cause death, and
commits such act without any excuse for incurring the risk
of causing death, or such injury as aforesaid.
Actus Reus
The act must be done willingly and under the accuseds control to be a voluntary act
Rv White
Involuntary Conduct Caused by Disease of Mind
Sinnasamy v pp- Irresistible impulse per se is no defence, and can only be a defence
when it is proved to have been the result of insanity in law
-there is 2 phone in garden which can indicate they have high probability to commit the
crime
Mens Rea-not clear