MILAN (AP) — For Meredith Kercher’s family, the Italian court reasoning this week goes a long way to vindicating the account they have long and unwaveringly believed — that their 21-year-old daughter was murdered by American roommate Amanda Knox, her boyfriend at the time and a drifter.

The family has maintained a reserved and dignified demeanor through multiple trials and flip-flop murder verdicts against Knox and Italian ex-boyfriend Raffele Sollecito. Family members have only discussed the case in the public eye only on rare occasions and they so far have not commented on the voluminous reasoning, released Tuesday, behind an Italian court’s decision to reinstate the guilty verdicts against Knox and Sollecito.