American Amanda Knox, who made headlines years ago in connection with a murder case in Italy and was again found guilty of defamation in June, does not want to let this go.
The 37-year-old criticized the online service on Friday
“I was clearly not home when Meredith was murdered, I was not involved and I know no more than the evidence shows,” Knox said after the reasons for the Court of Appeal’s ruling were released in June. “Don’t worry: I will be back,” she wrote, announcing that she would appeal the verdict to Italy’s Supreme Court.
According to the ruling of the Florentine Court of Appeal, Knox “wrongly” accused the innocent bartender of Kercher’s murder in order to “extricate herself from the difficult situation in which she found herself.” The judges considered that Knox “was in the house when the murder occurred,” according to the reasoning.
The Meredith Kercher Murder Case
Knox and her ex-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito were accused of murdering British exchange student Meredith Kercher, whose body was discovered in her bedroom in the central Italian city of Perugia in late 2007. The case attracted worldwide attention. Sollecito and Knox were sentenced to lengthy prison terms in 2009, but were subsequently acquitted in 2011. Knox returned to the United States. The case went on to further trials, with both men convicted again, but the Italian Supreme Court eventually acquitted them in March 2015.
However, the American was sentenced to three years in prison for defamation. With the new trial in Florence, which ended in June, she wanted to prove her innocence. During the interrogation after her arrest after the murder, Knox had accused a Congolese bartender, Patrick Lumumba, who worked in Perugia and whom she knew, of the murder. The American had already served her three-year prison sentence for defamation, taking into account her pre-trial detention. She returned to the US in 2011 after a total of four years in prison.
The only person legally convicted of the exchange student’s murder is Ivorian-born Rudy Guede, who had lived in Perugia since he was six as the adopted son of an Italian couple. He was sentenced to 30 years in prison in October 2008 after a summary trial. After an appeal, the sentence was reduced to 16 years. Investigators agreed that he could not have acted alone. Guede is now free.
Source: Krone
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