Amanda Knox hits out at Italian court’s insistence that she struck blow that killed Meredith Kercher

 
Blow: Knox, left, and Meredith Kercher (Pictures: AP)
Kiran Randhawa30 April 2014

Amanda Knox has hit out at an Italian court’s insistence that she struck the blow that killed Surrey student Meredith Kercher.

The appeal court in Florence issued a 337-page document explaining why it restored the guilty charge against Knox and her former boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito in January.

It says it has DNA evidence to prove that American Knox delivered the fatal knife blow to her roommate in 2007.

Knox claims there is “no logic” to the court’s decision to reinstate her conviction for murder.

She and Sollecito were first convicted of the murder in 2009 but acquitted by the high court in 2011 and released from prison. The appeal court convicted them for a second time in January.

Knox, who now lives in her home town of Seattle, said in a written statement “I am innocent.” She added that she will take the case to Italy’s supreme court but is refusing to return to Italy.

Ms Kercher, 21, of Coulsdon, was found dead in the flat she and Knox shared in Perugia. Her throat had been slashed and she had been sexually assaulted.

The appeal court said that a third person convicted of the murder, Rudy Hermann Guede, did not act alone.

The court said it had evidence that Ms Kercher had accused Knox of taking money from her and that on the night of her death Knox, who was high on drugs, killed her — helped by Sollecito and Guede.

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