Knox had been found guilty of defamation for wrongly accusing Patrick Lumumba of murdering Meredith Kercher
Italy’s top court has ordered a retrial after Amanda Knox appealed for the dropping of the slander conviction she received for wrongly accusing a bar owner of murdering the British student Meredith Kercher.
Knox, an American who, along with her Italian ex-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito, spent four years in prison after initially being convicted of the murder, made the request on the basis of a ruling by the European court of human rights in 2019 that found that her defence rights had been violated during police questioning in 2007.
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Rudy Guede is the murderer. His DNA and fingerprints were found everywhere. The crazy thing is, the Italians let him out of prison in 2021, only serving 13 years for murder.
Lumumba was the bar owner where Knox worked. He texted her that she wasn’t needed that evening, and she replied saying she would see him later (a very American English expression). But with intense questioning (in Italian only, a language Knox had only a limited grasp of), the Italian police insisted it meant they had met up that very night in the apartment, and thus could have been involved. With the stress of the questioning, Knox eventually agreed. Essentially, it was 100% the police’s fault Lumumba was falsely accused.