"Outside the courtroom in Perugia on Monday night, Italians booed and heckled, shouting “Give us Amanda!”, shaking their fists and threatening rough justice. A few paces away, a gaggle of airbrushed American television reporters excitedly broke the news to their audiences back home: “Amanda Knox is cleared of murder!”
Not since O J Simpson was tried for the murder of his wife Nicole has a court case gripped two continents in this way. Office staff in the US, where it was mid-afternoon, were allowed to stand by television sets and await the verdict from Perugia. But it was not only the cliff-hanger finale that drew everyone to this extraordinary courtroom drama.
Throughout, the case had ignited passions among those who saw this as a clash of cultures: the American legal system pitted against Italian justice; Italy’s conservative mores (soiled but not erased by prime minister Silvio Berlusconi’s antics) confronting the more liberal Anglo-Saxon mindset.
And at the centre of it was not the victim, Meredith Kercher, but the well-brought-up girl from Seattle who stood accused ... "
So who is the real Amanda Knox? - Telegraph
Rudy Guede remains convicted "with others" of the murder, but now there are no others, it seems. Who were the others in the house at the time?