Meredith Kercher's Family: We Need Justice
Oct. 3 2011, Published 11:30 a.m. ET
By Breaking Celebrity News Staff
As supporters of Amanda Knox anxiously wait to hear if the appeal against her murder conviction is successful, the family of victim Meredith Kercher is speaking out.
The British student's sister, Stephanie Kercher, told a news conference in Perugia, Italy on Monday: "It is very difficult to keep her memory alive in all of this," reported The Telegraph in the U.K.
She went on to explain that forgiveness "does not come into it" at the moment. "It would be very difficult to forgive anything at this stage," said Stephanie.
"What everyone needs to remember is ... the brutality of what happened that night, everything that Meredith must have felt that night, everything she went through, the fear and the terror, and not knowing why.
"She doesn't deserve that, no-one deserves that."
Under the Italian legal system, the family is permitted to speak publicly once the jury is behind closed doors deliberating on the verdict.
Meredith's mother,