Meredith Kercher's sister criticises Amanda Knox's Edinburgh comedy show

The sister of Meredith Kercher has criticised Amanda Knox's solo drama show Cartwheel, which is scheduled for the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. The show is described as being about motherhood and poses the question of how Knox will explain what happened in Perugia to her daughter. Stephanie Kercher, speaking to Knox directly on BBC Breakfast, said: "What I would accidental [to Knox] is to deliberation astir the household here, deliberation astur her friends and to crook the tables if it was your sister that this had happened to, due to the fact that I cognize you person a sister arsenic well." A spokesperson for Knox stated that the show honours Kercher's memory. The title Cartwheel refers to a earlier claim that Knox performed cartwheels in the police station after her friend's death. Knox told the Telegraph newspaper: "I don't gag astir Meredith's death. I gag a batch astir however I was vilified, but I don't gag astir her murder." When asked whether Meredith Kercher would have found the show funny, she added: "Yeah, I deliberation so. I mean, it is funny!." In response, Stephanie Kercher told the BBC: "Meredith perfectly wouldn't find these topics of immoderate drama value." She continued: "Our family's symptom is immense. I can't explicate to you however overmuch symptom our household person been through, and besides we're talking 2 decades aboriginal now, this pain." A petition against the show, organised by a friend of Meredith, has been signed by about 1,500 people and argues that the production disrespects Kercher's memory and risks normalising violence against women by making light of such a harrowing event.