Meredith Kercher’s sister criticises Amanda Knox Edinburgh Fringe show
- The family of murdered student Meredith Kercher has called for Amanda Knox‘s comedy show, Cartwheel, to be pulled from the Edinburgh Fringe festival.
- Knox, who was wrongfully convicted of Kercher’s murder, describes her one-woman show as an attempt to explain her wrongful imprisonment to her daughter and denies joking about Kercher’s death.
- A petition, initiated by a friend of the Kercher family, has garnered over 2,000 signatures, accusing the show of ‘trivialising’ Kercher’s death and ‘normalising violence against women’.
- Kercher’s sister, Stephanie, stated that the family’s pain has been ‘turned into someone else’s laughter’ and questioned how rape and murder can be the subject of a comedy show.
- A spokesperson for Knox refuted the petition’s claims, stating Cartwheel is about motherhood and honours Meredith Kercher’s memory, while the venue, Gilded Balloon, affirmed its commitment to freedom of expression.
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