Amanda Knox says she remains to be ‘preventing to clear her title’

Amanda Knox has insisted she remains to be ‘preventing to clear her title’ whereas the person who savagely murdered her roommate is ‘free from jail’ and has been accused of rape and sexual assault by his ex-girlfriend.

Knox, 36, was initially convicted of murdering British trade scholar Meredith Kercher, 21, at their house within the college city of Perugia, Italy, in November 2007.

She served practically 4 years along with her then boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito earlier than their convictions had been sensationally quashed.

Her conviction for slandering a barman, who she falsely accused of the homicide, was not dismissed on the time, though Italy’s highest court docket overturned this in October and have ordered a brand new trial in Florence.

It was Rudy Guede who was in the end convicted of murdering Ms Kercher and he was sentenced to 30 years behind bars in 2008. This was later lowered to 18 years and with good behaviour he was freed on parole in 2021.

Amanda Knox (pictured at her dad and mom’ house in Seattle in 2015) has insisted she remains to be ‘preventing to clear her title’ whereas the person who savagely murdered her roommate is ‘free from jail’ 

Meredith Kercher killer Rudy Guede, 36, (pictured arriving at an interrogation listening to on 10 December) has now been charged with assaulting his ex-girlfriend following his launch from jail

British scholar Meredith Kercher was in Italy as a part of her University of Leeds diploma course and had solely been within the nation for lower than two months earlier than she was murdered

In June he was discharged from his sentence, but it surely emerged earlier this month he has been charged with assaulting his 23-year-old ex-girlfriend.

Speaking out on X, previously Twitter, Knox wrote final evening: ’16 years after my arrest, I’m nonetheless on trial in Italy, nonetheless preventing to clear my title.’

She continued: ‘Meanwhile, the person who murdered my roommate is free from jail’, whereas she then referenced his newest costs.

Knox has additionally spoken in regards to the retrial and the way she should testify in a brand new podcast.

She added: ‘We spend lots of time digging into the coercive interrogation that led to my arrest, and to the slander costs I’m nonetheless on trial for.

‘In explicit, we go over the hand-written assertion I gave the police after they launched me from the pressure-cooker of the interrogation. 

‘Reading again by means of that assertion I wrote at 20 years outdated was….tough. I’ve by no means been extra fragile, extra susceptible, extra gaslit and confused, and on the mercy of authority figures whom I had trusted to maintain me secure, and who had been within the technique of destroying my life.’

In one other tweet, she added: I’m not afraid to journey again to Italy and take the stand in my protection. I used to be so unprepared to take action as a 20-year-old. All these years later, I lastly am. And I need my daughter and my son to see what standing up for the reality and on your princples [sic] appears like.’

Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito each spent practically 4 years in jail after being wrongly convicted of homicide

Knox initially informed investigators harmless barman Patrick Lumumba had killed Ms Kercher by slitting her throat and leaving her bleeding to dying.

She had claimed she had seen the Congolese barman on the home she shared with Meredith, 21, within the Italian hilltop city of Perugia in November 2007.

It led to the harmless father-of-two being arrested and held by police for 2 weeks earlier than being launched with out cost after an alibi had a key receipt which confirmed him working on the time.

Kercher was discovered semi-naked and along with her throat reduce within the bed room of her home within the hilltop city – simply weeks after arriving for a 12 months overseas along with her Leeds University course. 

Guede was discovered responsible after his DNA was found on Kercher’s physique regardless of his claims that he was within the rest room listening to music when she was killed.

Her physique was present in her bed room, partially undressed, with 47 stab wounds. 

He was freed on parole in 2021 following good behaviour in jail and has been dwelling within the city of Viterbo the place he works as a researcher and librarian on the Centre for Crime, Judicial and Sociological research.

Rudy Guede leaves a court docket listening to in Perugia in September 2008. He was jailed for murdering Ms Kercher

He has additionally been learning for a Master’s in Historical Sciences at Rome Tre college.

Following his launch from jail, Guede mentioned: ‘The sentence I needed to serve within the title of the legislation has ended. Now I’m left marked by the judgement of strangers, by the slanted glances as I cross.’

But Guede has now been charged with assaulting his 23-year-old ex-girlfriend – six months after he was formally launched from jail over Kercher’s homicide.

The girl, who can’t be named for authorized causes, filed a grievance towards Guede earlier this 12 months.

A choose ordered him to put on an digital tag and he’s forbidden to go inside 500 metres of his ex-partner, who’s an skilled horse rider.

The girl who first met Guede two years in the past mentioned: ‘Rudy began to abuse me from the beginning of our relationship, however I’d at all times forgive him.

‘Even when he left bruises on my physique, and he would then unbelievably blame me. Rudy destroyed me, he managed me, violated me and humiliated me.

‘I do not need some other girl to undergo what I went by means of.’

Mr Sollecito, who was acquitted over the Brit’s homicide alongside together with his then-girlfriend Knox, additionally mentioned ‘it appears Guede has not modified’ after he was charged with assaulting his girlfriend.