Amanda Knoxis back in Italy for the first time since 2011, when she wasfreed from prison after an appeals court acquitted herof the 2007 slaying of her British roommate.
Knox was an American student studying abroad in Perugia in 2007 when she wasaccused of brutally murderingroommate Meredith Kercher, 21, who was found half-naked with her throat cut in her bedroom.
Knox, who was 20 at the time of the killing, and her then-boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito, were both convicted of the murder. Prosecutors alleged the crime had taken place during a sex game run amok, though hard evidence against the young couple was scant.
Knox and Sollecito spent four years in prison before their convictions were overturned in 2011. However, the pair were convicted again in absentia in 2013 before being acquitted again in 2015.
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In January 2019, the European Court of Human Rights ordered Italy to pay $20,000 in damages to Knox for failing to provide her legal assistance during her initial questioning after Kercher’s murder,according to the AP.
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Before she left for the event in Italy, Knoxposted a photo to Instagramof herself and fiancéChristopher Robinson, writing, “Here we go… Wish us, ‘Bon Viaggio!”
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“Thrust into the spotlight against my will in 2007, the year of the iPhone and the takeoff of Twitter and Facebook, the most intimate details of my life — from my sexual history to my thoughts of death and suicide in prison — were taken from my private diary and leaked to the media,” she wrote. “They became fodder for hundreds of articles, thousands of posts, and millions of hot takes.”
In May, Knox announcedher appearance at the Innocence Project event on Twitter, writing, “The Italy Innocence Project didn’t yet exist when I was wrongly convicted in Perugia. I’m honored to accept their invitation to speak to the Italian people at this historic event and return to Italy for the first time.”
source: people.com
