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During an overnight interrogation they kept telling her that they knew her employer, Lumumba was there with her. She finally doubted her recall so much she said maybe she remembered that she'd been in the house, and hearing Lumumba and Kercher in the other room.
So her "confession" was her coerced placing of herself in the same house at the time of the murder -- but not to being involved in the murder itself.
A few hours later, after getting some sleep, she called for someone to come and take a new statement, and in it she retracted the previous statement, saying she didn't believe it was true.
Still, the police arrested Lumumba anyway, and kept him in jail for weeks, because they were sure it was a black guy because they'd found a hair that look like it came from a black person. (And the real killer , Rudy Guede, did match the hair, the DNA, the fingerprints, and dozens of other pieces of evidence in the murder room and on and in Kercher's body.)
But, unwilling to admit they were wrong, the prosecutor also charged Amanda with making a false accusation against Lumumba, even though they had coerced her into it, and even though she retracted it a few hours later.
ON EDIT: In January 2019 the European Court of Human Rights ruled on her behalf, saying that, during her 50 hours of interrogation, she had been wrongly denied an attorney and a translator (the person "translating" was a police officer.) (She spoke very rudimentary Italian at that point.)
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