Amanda Knox reconvicted of slander in Italy for accusing innocent man in Meredith Kercher’s 2007 murder
- Knox was again found guilty of slander in a retrial in Italy linked to her infamous jailing and acquittal for the 2007 murder of Meredith Kercher
An Italian court reconvicted Amanda Knox of slander on Wednesday, even after she was exonerated in the brutal 2007 murder of her British roommate while the two were exchange students in Italy.
The court found that Knox had wrongly accused an innocent man, the Congolese owner of the bar where she worked part-time, of the killing. But she will not serve any more jail time, given the three-year sentence counts as time already served.
Knox, who had returned to Italy for only the second time since she was freed in 2011 to participate in the trial, showed no visible emotion as the verdict was read aloud.
But her lawyer, Carlo della Vedova, said shortly afterward that “Amanda is very embittered.”
Knox had written on social media ahead of the hearing that she hoped to “clear my name once and for all, of the false charges against me. Wish me luck.”
The slaying of 21-year-old Meredith Kercher in the idyllic hilltop town of Perugia fuelled global headlines as suspicion fell on Knox, a 20-year-old exchange student from Seattle, and her new Italian boyfriend of just a week, Raffaele Sollecito.
