Amanda Knox vows to fight murder conviction, won’t ‘go willingly’ to Italy

‘Journey to the truth’

On Friday morning, Kercher’s siblings spoke in Florence about their family’s long ordeal.

Her sister, Stephanie Kercher, said the family might never know exactly what happened on the night of her death.

“I think we are still on the journey to the truth,” she said. “I think it may be the fact that we don’t ever really know what happened that night, which is obviously something we will have to come to terms with.”

Lyle Kercher, Meredith’s brother, said the family may have to wait until spring 2015 for a final resolution, since the verdicts reached Thursday can still be appealed at Italy’s Supreme Court.

“Nothing is going to bring Meredith back, nothing will take away the horror of what happened to her,” he said.

“The best we can hope for is finally bringing this whole case to a conclusion, having a conviction, and everyone can move on with their lives.”

If the Supreme Court upholds the murder conviction, he expects to see Italian authorities make an extradition request to the United States so that Knox serves her sentence in Italy, he said.

Stephanie Kercher said that she had been told of a letter written by Knox to the Kercher family but that she had not seen it.

She also appeared to rule out meeting with Knox in the future, despite the American’s overtures to the family and whatever the final outcome of the case.

“We’ve asked to have our wishes respected in that we would like to be together as a family to remember Meredith,” she said. “A lot has happened over this length of time. It would be very difficult to meet someone having had all that happen.”

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