For decades, Palestinian Sirhan Sirhan claimed to have no memory of the night in June 1968 when he shot Robert Kennedy in a Los Angeles hotel. Now an emigrant from Jordan, first sentenced to death by a court and now serving a life sentence in a California prison, wants to have his life sentence abolished, and for this purpose, Scotsman reports, makes sensational confessions
Since 1975, when Sirhan was granted the right to petition for a review of the sentence, dozens of attempts to get his sentence reduced have been rejected. The last attempt ended in failure in March this year. Sirhan is now launching a new attack. In a 62-page memo, Sirhan's lawyers prove their 67-year-old client is innocent. The document claims that corrupt prosecutors concocted evidence for the 1969 trial and that the bullet stuck in RFK's neck was not fired from his revolver.
The most interesting thing is that now Sirkhan seems to have "woken up" his memory. More than 40 years later, he finally "remembered" that night when Robert Kennedy celebrated his victory in the primaries at the Ambassador Hotel. Sirhan admits that he was at the hotel, but was under the influence of hypnosis and distracted attention from the real killer, who managed to escape in the ensuing confusion.
For the first time, the version of the second shooter appeared in 2003. It resembles exactly the same version of the assassination of Robert's older brother, President Kennedy, committed 5 years earlier. The version is based mainly on an audio recording made by a journalist that night in a hotel, on which, experts say, not 8 shots from Sirhan's revolver are heard, but 13.
Sirhan now claims that shortly before the trial, prosecutors swapped the bullet recovered from Attorney General Kennedy's body because it did not match the cartridges from his revolver.