‘Embittered’ Amber Knox Reconvicted of Slander in Italy After Exoneration in Roommate’s Killing

She accused an innocent man of committing the murder

Amanda Knox
Amanda Knox delivers a speech during a panel session entitled 'Trial by Media' during the first edition of the Criminal Justice Festival, an event organised by The Italy Innocence Project and the local association of barristers, on June 15, 2019 in Modena, Italy. Emanuele Cremaschi/Getty Images

An Italian court has re-convicted Amanda Knox for slander years after she was acquitted of killing her British roommate Meredith Kercher more than a decade ago.

The court says Knox had wrongly accused an innocent man of the brutal murder, the Associated Press reported.

She had fingered the Congolese owner of the bar where she worked part-time as the exchange student's 2007 killer.

The judge will not send Knox to prison for the new conviction due to the time she already served for the murder for which she was originally convicted.

She was convicted of slander at the same time as her original conviction for blaming the murder bar owner Patrick Lumumba during police interrogation, the BBC reported.

Knox's lawyers plan to appeal the latest verdict.

Knox had returned to Italy for only the second time since she was freed in 2011.

She didn't show any emotion as the verdict was announced but her lawyer said, "Amanda is very embittered."

Knox said that she hoped to "clear my name once and for all of the false charges against me. Wish me luck" before the hearing.

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