15 December 2011 Last updated at 22:51 GMT Amanda Knox was cleared of the murder of British student Meredith Kercher in Perugia Lack of motive and faulty evidence led to the acquittal of Amanda Knox, an Italian court has said. Knox, 24, saw her conviction for the murder of UK student Meredith Kercher overturned on [...]
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December 16, 2011
October 6, 2011
Amanda Knox judge says she may have ‘been responsible’ after all
The judge who presided at the trial of Amanda Knox and her former Italian boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito, has reportedly said they may be guilty after all. Speaking just two days after he and his fellow judges handed down a full acquittal on appeal, Judge Claudio Pratillo Hellmann, said the court’s verdict “is the result of [...]
October 4, 2011
Knox prosecuting lawyer to appeal
Italian lawyer Manuela Comodi says the prosecution will appeal against the decision by a Perugia court to acquit Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito of murdering the British student Meredith Kercher. The American and her former Italian boyfriend have spent almost four years in jail after being arrest over the murder in November 2007
October 4, 2011
Amanda Knox, Meredith Kercher and the media | Nina Burleigh
As an American journalist covering the Knox case for 10 months in Italy, I was surprised by a number of things. I arrived assuming Knox was guilty, but within a month realised that most of what I’d been reading about – how she and her boyfriend were holding a mop and bucket at the door [...]
October 4, 2011
Amanda Knox release welcomed by America
The dramatic release of Amanda Knox has been widely welcomed by the US media, with a number of journalists arguing she should never have been found guilty of Meredith Kercher‘s murder. Articles written in the wake of the 24-year-old American’s courtroom victory have been heavily critical of the Italian prosecutors’ “far-fetched” case against her, with [...]
October 4, 2011
Amanda Knox to fly home after being cleared of Kercher murder
Amanda Knox’s sister Deanna gives a statement outside the Perugia court after the appeal ruling Link to this video Amanda Knox is due to fly back to the US after she and her former boyfriend were cleared on appeal of the murder of the British student Meredith Kercher four years ago. Knox, now 24, sobbed [...]
October 4, 2011
Amanda Knox’s ‘nightmare is over’, says sister after appeal verdict
Amanda Knox, 24, sobbed as judges in a Perugia courtroom cleared her and ex-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito of the murder of her flatmate, British student Meredith Kercher. Afterwards her sister Deanna Knox gave a brief statement outside the court in Perugia. Watching the verdict on television in Knox’s home city of Seattle, friends and family reacted [...]
October 4, 2011
Meredith Kercher family press conference
8.45am: The family of Meredith Kercher are due imminently to hold a press conference, giving their reaction to last night’s acquittal on appeal of Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito, two of the three people convicted of murdering the 21-year-old Leeds University student in November 2007. This is an enormously difficult time for the Kerchers. While [...]
October 4, 2011
Amanda Knox flies home as prosecutor vows to launch appeal
Meredith Kercher’s family says they still have no answers regarding the death of the British student. Link to this video Amanda Knox is flying back to her native Seattle as the prosecutor who led the investigation into the murder of Meredith Kercher indicated he would seek to overturn her acquittal and that of her former [...]
October 4, 2011
Video: Meredith Kercher family press conference: ‘we still have no answers’
Family of murdered British student say they were initially shocked by Amanda Knox’s release, but will continue to wait to learn the truth about what happened
October 4, 2011
Amanda Knox verdict: we answer your questions
The nightmare for Amanda Knox and her Italian former boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito, cleared of murdering the British student Meredith Kercher, is now over, with Knox flying back to Seattle after her release from the prison where she spent four years. Another man, Rudy Guede, has been convicted of the sexual assault and murder of Kercher, [...]
October 4, 2011
Amanda Knox: what next after 1,450 days of wrongful imprisonment?
Amanda Knox began her 10-minute plea to the court by tackling an issue that has bedevilled this case: “It has been often stated that I am a different person from what I seem … that it is not understood who I am.” Knox’s retort was that she was the same person as the one whose [...]
October 4, 2011
Amanda Knox cleared of Meredith Kercher murder
Amanda Knox gives her reaction in court after the jury in Perugia overturns her conviction for the murder of British student Meredith Kercher
October 4, 2011
Amanda Knox reaction: ‘We’ll welcome you with open arms and hearts’
As the jury verdict in the courtroom in Perugia was broadcast around the world, there were cries of “She’s free!” and “We did it!” in a packed hotel room in downtown Seattle where a group of Amanda Knox‘s friends and supporters had gathered hours earlier to await the news. People cheered and hugged as if [...]