Pizzas galore!

She changed her story in later interrogations, admitting that she had been at the cottage but claiming that Ms Kercher had been killed by Mr Lumumba, a Congolese immigrant in whose bar she occasionally helped out.

In that version Ms Knox said that she had heard Ms Kercher screaming from the bedroom but had stayed in the kitchen, blocking out the sound of her flatmate’s death throes by putting her fingers in her ears. She then told her mother at the weekend that this was untrue, and she had “not moved” all evening and all night from Mr Sollecito’s flat.

Police, by contrast, allege that she was in the bedroom and assisted in murder and attempted rape, perhaps by holding Ms Kercher down. Mr Sollecito has testified that he parted from Ms Knox at 9pm and did not see her again until she returned to his flat at about 1am. He insists that he was not at the cottage.

The passage from St Luke that Ms Knox discussed with the priest reads:

27 Then came to him certain of the Sadducees, which deny that there is any resurrection; and they asked him,

28 saying, Master, Moses wrote unto us, If any man’s brother die, having a wife, and he die without children, that his brother should take his wife, and raise up seed unto his brother.

29 There were therefore seven brethren: and the first took a wife, and died without children.

30 And the second took her to wife, and he died childless.

31 And the third took her; and in like manner the seven also: and they left no children, and died.

32 Last of all the woman died also.

33 Therefore in the resurrection whose wife of them is she? for seven had her to wife.

34 And Jesus answering said unto them, The children of this world marry, and are given in marriage:

35 but they which shall be accounted worthy to obtain that world, and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry, nor are given in marriage:

36 neither can they die any more: for they are equal unto the angels; and are the children of God, being the children of the resurrection.

37 Now that the dead are raised, even Moses showed at the bush, when he calleth the Lord the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.

38 For he is not a God of the dead, but of the living: for all live unto him.

39 Then certain of the scribes answering said, Master, thou hast well said.

40 And after that they durst not ask him any question at all.

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