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MILAN – Amanda Knox instructed Italian TV on Thursday that she was once shocked by means of a Florence appeals court’s resolution to to find her guilty of slander in gentle of a European court ruling that police who took her confession had violated her human rights.
“I will fight for the truth,’’ Knox told Sky TG24 in her first public comments since the guilty verdict on Wednesday. “It’s been 17 years that I have been unjustly accused.”
Knox was once a 20-year-old change scholar in the college the town of Perugia when she and her then-Italian boyfriend have been accused of murdering her housemate, 21-year-old Meredith Kercher, who was once discovered lifeless in the condominium they shared on Nov. 2, 2007.
After years of flip-flop trials, they have been exonerated in 2015, however the slander conviction continued towards Knox for wrongly accusing an blameless guy, the Congolese bar proprietor who hired her section time. She served 4 years in jail earlier than being freed on an previous acquittal in 2011, overlaying the three-year slander sentence.
Another guy, Rudy Hermann Guede of Ivory Coast, was once convicted in the slaying and served 13 years of a 16-year sentence.
Knox was once available in the Florence court on Wednesday when she was once re-convicted of slandering Patrick Lumumba, who was once held for two weeks on suspicion of homicide earlier than police launched him with an iron-clad alibi.
Italy’s very best court ordered the retrial after a European Court of Human Rights ruling that her human rights have been violated throughout an extended night time of wondering with no attorney or competent translator, when she accused Lumumba in two statements typed by means of police that she signed.
The prime court stipulated that the Florence appeals panel may no longer imagine the two signed paperwork, however most effective 4 handwritten pages penned by means of Knox the subsequent afternoon in a bid to stroll again the statements.
“There is one document in question, that we can all read, and the message of this document is, ‘I don’t know who killed Meredith.’ I thought I was extremely clear,’’ Knox said in fluent Italian.
Knox insists that she named Lumumba under extreme police pressure.
“I was abused, mistreated, psychologically tortured by police that night,” Knox said in the TV interview. “It was the worst experience of my life. It was worse than being convicted, to tell the truth, because they made me think I was crazy, that I couldn’t trust myself.”
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