Amanda Knox’s boyfriend publishes social media study to support innocence claim
Raffaele Sollecito, former boyfriend of Amanda Knox, has used his final university thesis to analyse the murder case for which his name will forever be associated, in a bid to argue his innocence.
Sollecito was first convicted, then acquitted before being convicted again over the baffling murder of Meredith Kercher in Perugia, Italy, back in 2007.
Facing 25 years in jail for the crime, but currently free to travel pending an appeal, the Italian has trawled all mentions of his name in public discourse on the case, claiming that he is more frequently associated with the word ‘innocent’ than ‘guilty’.
Outlining his motives to Corriere della Sera Sollecito said: “What was interesting was that that in the days after we were reconvicted, there was a complete inversion – for the justice system we were guilty, but on the web, or at least among those internet search engines that I studied, the interpretation was exactly the opposite.
Sollecito’s thesis was titled Social Network Analysis and Semantic Proximity.