€25 million...
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... the price that Mr & Mrs Kercher place on their daughters life.
BBC News article said:
The family of murdered British exchange student Meredith Kercher is seeking £19m in compensation for her death.
Lawyers for the family have applied for the money, which would be split between family members upon a conviction.
Miss Kercher, 21, from London, was found semi-naked with her throat slit in her flat in Perugia, Italy, in 2007.
Suspects Rudy Guede, 22, from Ivory Coast, American Amanda Knox, 21, and Italian Raffaele Sollecito, 24, each deny sexual assault and murder.
The BBC's Duncan Kennedy in Rome said lawyers for the Kercher family had applied for a total of 25m euros (£19.4m) in damages as part of the Italian civil law process. There is also an ongoing criminal legal process.
Fast-track trial
The body of Miss Kercher, from Coulsdon, south London, was discovered in the bedroom of her flat on 1 November last year.
She lived with Miss Knox and others at the apartment on Via Della Pergola in Perugia, central Italy.
Last week, prosecutors in Italy asked for a life sentence for Mr Guede, one of the suspects.
Under Italian law, Mr Guede has taken a special fast-track trial which will allow him some leniency if convicted.
Francesco Maresca, the Kercher family's lawyer, said: "As the prosecution case concluded against Guede, a request was made for 25m euros financial compensation in the event that somebody is found responsible for Meredith's death.
"At the moment it applies only to Rudy, but the figure will be the same if either of the other two suspects are brought to court.
"The request for 25m euros applies to all three collectively, not 25 million from each. So it could be that one of them, or all of them, or none of them have to pay this compensation to the family."
Miss Knox and Mr Sollecito have been in jail since November, while Mr Guede was arrested later in Germany and extradited to Italy in December.
This doesn't sit easily with me as I cannot imagine the pain of losing my daughter, never mind then trying to claim compensation for it. However, why €25 million? Why not €10,000 or €100 million? And, who will pay this? Surely Foxy Knoxy doesn't have a spare €8.5 million lying around (if she and the other two are convicted of murder of course. Will this bring back their daughter? Will this help them deal with the terrible facts of what happened to their daughter? I think not!Lawyers for the family have applied for the money, which would be split between family members upon a conviction.
Miss Kercher, 21, from London, was found semi-naked with her throat slit in her flat in Perugia, Italy, in 2007.
Suspects Rudy Guede, 22, from Ivory Coast, American Amanda Knox, 21, and Italian Raffaele Sollecito, 24, each deny sexual assault and murder.
The BBC's Duncan Kennedy in Rome said lawyers for the Kercher family had applied for a total of 25m euros (£19.4m) in damages as part of the Italian civil law process. There is also an ongoing criminal legal process.
Fast-track trial
The body of Miss Kercher, from Coulsdon, south London, was discovered in the bedroom of her flat on 1 November last year.
She lived with Miss Knox and others at the apartment on Via Della Pergola in Perugia, central Italy.
Last week, prosecutors in Italy asked for a life sentence for Mr Guede, one of the suspects.
Under Italian law, Mr Guede has taken a special fast-track trial which will allow him some leniency if convicted.
Francesco Maresca, the Kercher family's lawyer, said: "As the prosecution case concluded against Guede, a request was made for 25m euros financial compensation in the event that somebody is found responsible for Meredith's death.
"At the moment it applies only to Rudy, but the figure will be the same if either of the other two suspects are brought to court.
"The request for 25m euros applies to all three collectively, not 25 million from each. So it could be that one of them, or all of them, or none of them have to pay this compensation to the family."
Miss Knox and Mr Sollecito have been in jail since November, while Mr Guede was arrested later in Germany and extradited to Italy in December.
mikechandler said:
This doesn't sit easily with me as I cannot imagine the pain of losing my daughter, never mind then trying to claim compensation for it. However, why €25 million? Why not €10,000 or €100 million? And, who will pay this? Surely Foxy Knoxy doesn't have a spare €8.5 million lying around (if she and the other two are convicted of murder of course. Will this bring back their daughter? Will this help them deal with the terrible facts of what happened to their daughter? I think not!
Knoxy gets out after 25 years, and walks into an inheritance that her dead parents have left her, enjoys a quiet life, without a care in the world.Now, she gets chased for the rest of her mortal life for anything she ever manages to put aside, if and when she gets out.
I think thats fair.
sounds like a standard part of the italian legal process to me- very evry much doubt it they are going after money as i am sure they realise that it is very unlikely there will ever be any- just a way of making the killer pay in both time and money
sounds like a good idea to me- if you know that you are going to spend 20 years in prison and still have to pay off millions of pounds for the rest of your life then that is going to be a pretty serious slap in the face.
sounds like a good idea to me- if you know that you are going to spend 20 years in prison and still have to pay off millions of pounds for the rest of your life then that is going to be a pretty serious slap in the face.
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