The 36-year-old American was detained for almost four years on suspicion of murder. Now she makes a surprise return to the courtroom – voluntarily!
It’s likely her last fight in the case of Meredith Kercher, who was murdered in 2007 – and Amanda Knox wants to take it on personally. More than twelve years after she boarded the plane back to the US, the American returns to Florence, Italy.
But this time it is not directly about the murder. The point is that Knox falsely accused Congolese bar owner Patrick Lumumba of Kercher’s murder. In 2011, she was sentenced to three years in prison for defamation. Last October, the Italian Supreme Court overturned the verdict. Reason: Knox was interrogated without an official interpreter or lawyer – illegal according to the European Court of Human Rights.
Now Knox announces that on Wednesday she will walk into the same courtroom where she was convicted in 2011 “for a crime I did not commit.” “I hope to clear my name once and for all of the false accusations against me.”
In the worst case, Knox risks a three-year prison sentence for defamation. But because she has already been in pre-trial detention for four years, that is unlikely.
To the background
On November 2, 2007, Meredith Kercher, Knox’s roommate at the time, was found half-naked and with her throat slit in their shared apartment in Perugia. The student’s body had 47 knife wounds. She had also been raped. In 2009, Knox – dubbed the ‘icy-eyed angel’ by the media – and her then-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito were sentenced to 26 and 25 years in prison respectively. In 2015, the two were finally acquitted due to shoddy investigations.
Since returning to the United States in 2011, Knox has built a new life for herself. She completed her studies, published her memoirs in 2013 and now works as a freelance journalist. In 2020, she married Christopher Robinson (42), with whom she has a daughter.
Source: Krone
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