Mez: MACGUFFIN (4#) -

Meredith Kercher Murder -

There's a bomb in your toilet . . .

In the Alfred Hitchcock style narrative of this story, the case begins with one of Meredith Kercher's neighbors receiving a telephoned bomb threat informing her that there's a bomb in her toilet. Ah, the old exploding toilet prank! The neighbor called the Communications Police who, naturally, took it seriously and consequently dispatched a squad out there to investigate. When the dumped mobile phones came to light and were traced back to the owner, the discovery process of the homicide was considerably hastened.

If it hadn't been for Prince Albert in the Can, the murder probably wouldn't have been discovered so quickly, because everyone else in the cottage was away for holiday. The delay would have afforded the perpetrator/s more time to cover their tracks. But the Hand of Providence intervened or the Portly Silhouette cast his commodious shadow on the affair.

Today's court session reconstructed the discovery of the body, beginning with the arrival of the Postal Police because of that bomb threat. They were told by Sollecito that he and his lover were awaiting the arrival of the Carabinieri. But, curiously, it emerged, the Carabiniari hadn't even been called.

......................... Also, in this session: Sollecito entered a statement into the court record. What especially stood out about his statement for me was the way he wanted to depict himself as utterly clueless about why he would be part of a case in which his lover's roommate was murdered by someone plunging a knife through her neck:

"the situation I find myself in is very difficult
to explain... I don't know why I am in this situation."

This is a fellow who has a photo of himself wielding a meat cleaver in a menacing way which has been widely circulated on the Internet. And he supposedly has a collection of knives. And he supposedly always carries a knife on his person.

Maybe the statement was his way of trying to counteract the effects of that notorious meat cleaver photo on the public's impression of him.

Here you have "the maniac wielding the meat cleaver" guy and his girlfriend who in another photo is pictured hilariously wielding a gatling gun.

And then he tells the court he wouldn't hurt a fly. Maybe so. But how did these two people ever come together? Those two photos constitute quite a remarkable airquotes-random coincidence.

:: MacGuffin :: an inciting incident which sets a story into motion; a plot device favored by Alfred Hitchcock in his movies.

:: Nick Pisa :: -- [Richard Owen] -- [Nick Squires]

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