'A narcissist': Victim's family hits out at Kohberger for challenging murder conviction

The family of one of the victims of Bryan Kohberger has hit out after it emerged that he was challenging his conviction for four murders of students in the US state of Idaho.Kohberger was sentenced last year to four consecutive terms of life in prison after pleading guilty to charges of murder in the November 2022 killings.In recent days, Kohberger told the New York Times he was taking back his plea, which was made to avoid the death penalty. He said it had rested on "false promises and blatant disinformation".The family of Kaylee Goncalves, one of the students who was killed, said that Kohberger was a "narcissist" who appeared to have changed his position."He chose not to leave his fate - or the facts of the case - to a jury," their statement from the Goncalves family said. "He never cried foul, never claimed he was uninformed or pressured, and never suggested there were problems with the discovery materials he and his counsel had reviewed for two years that should have been challenged."The Goncalves family went on to say "the real tragedy" was the amount of attention that Kohberger was now receiving at the expense of the victims.Kohberger was convicted of stabbing to death housemates Kaylee Goncalves, Ethan Chapin, Xana Kernodle and Madison Mogen, who all attended the Idaho" class="entity-link entity-organization" data-entity-id="118099" data-entity-type="organization">University of Idaho, in their off-campus home on 13 November 2022.