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.
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