Amanda Knox breaking down in tears after being acquitted of murder and sexual assault in 2011. She now faces the prospect of a retrial.
Italy’s highest criminal court has overturned the acquittal of Amanda Knox over the murder of her British roommate, and ordered a new trial.
The Court of Cassation in Rome ruled today that an appeals court in Florence must re-hear the case against the American and her Italian ex-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito for the murder of 21-year-old Meredith Kercher.
The body of Miss Kercher, from Coulsdon, Surrey, was found in November 2007 in her bedroom at the house she shared with Knox and other roommates in Perugia, an Italian university town where the two women were exchange students. Her throat had been slashed.
Prosecutors alleged that the Leeds University student was the victim of a drug-fuelled sex game gone awry.
Knox and Sollecito denied wrongdoing.
An Ivory Coast man, Rudy Guede, was convicted of the murder in a separate hearing and is serving a 16-year sentence.
