'A narcissist': Family hit out at Bryan Kohberger for challenging murder conviction

'A narcissist': Family hit out at Bryan Kohberger for challenging murder convictionImage source, Getty ImagesImage caption, Kirsti Goncalves, the mother of one of the four Idaho victims, Kaylee Goncalves, spoke at the sentencing hearing of Bryan Kohberger last yearByJames FitzGeraldPublished1 minute agoThe 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, external 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 University of Idaho, in their off-campus home on 13 November 2022. The case shocked the small student town of Moscow and made national headlines for almost two months before Kohberger was arrested.Kohberger was a criminology doctorate student at a different institution, Washington State University. He never shared a motive with the c...