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| Amanda Knox uses TV interview to appeal to Meredith Kercher's family | Amanda Knox uses TV interview to appeal to Meredith Kercher's family |
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| Amanda Knox – the Seattle woman who spent four years in jail accused of the murder in Italy of her British roommate Meredith Kercher – has told an American television interviewer that she wants to one day visit the slain woman's grave. | Amanda Knox – the Seattle woman who spent four years in jail accused of the murder in Italy of her British roommate Meredith Kercher – has told an American television interviewer that she wants to one day visit the slain woman's grave. |
| Proclaiming her innocence in her first interview since being freed, Knox, 25, told ABC's Diane Sawyer that she wanted to pay her respects but only if the Kercher family agreed. "Eventually I can have their permission to pay my respects at her grave and I would also like them to know that she talked about them to me," she said. | Proclaiming her innocence in her first interview since being freed, Knox, 25, told ABC's Diane Sawyer that she wanted to pay her respects but only if the Kercher family agreed. "Eventually I can have their permission to pay my respects at her grave and I would also like them to know that she talked about them to me," she said. |
| "About how she wanted to be a journalist like her dad and she talked about her sister … if all I can give them is this memory that I have of her to add to all theirs that they can carry with them when she's gone." | "About how she wanted to be a journalist like her dad and she talked about her sister … if all I can give them is this memory that I have of her to add to all theirs that they can carry with them when she's gone." |
| That does not seem likely. The Kercher family has dismissed suggestions of any reconciliation with Knox and frequently complained that the media coverage of the death has focused more on "foxy Knoxy" than the victim. | That does not seem likely. The Kercher family has dismissed suggestions of any reconciliation with Knox and frequently complained that the media coverage of the death has focused more on "foxy Knoxy" than the victim. |
| Knox told Sawyer that on the night of Kercher's death she had sex, smoked a joint, and joked and chatted with Raffaele Sollecito, her boyfriend. Despite getting high she still knew what happened on that night, she said. | Knox told Sawyer that on the night of Kercher's death she had sex, smoked a joint, and joked and chatted with Raffaele Sollecito, her boyfriend. Despite getting high she still knew what happened on that night, she said. |
| She told Sawyer: "I want the truth to come out. I'd like to be reconsidered as a person." She was aware of being labelled a seductress, a she-devil and other names in the media, but: "They're wrong." | She told Sawyer: "I want the truth to come out. I'd like to be reconsidered as a person." She was aware of being labelled a seductress, a she-devil and other names in the media, but: "They're wrong." |
| Italian prosecutors have said Knox, who was an exchange student studying in Perugia, Italy, and her then-boyfriend Sollecito, killed Kercher in a drug-fuelled sex assault involving a third man. They maintained that the murder weapon was a large knife taken from Sollecito's house. Prosecutors said the knife matched the wounds on Kercher's body and had traces of Kercher's DNA on the blade and Knox's DNA on the handle. | Italian prosecutors have said Knox, who was an exchange student studying in Perugia, Italy, and her then-boyfriend Sollecito, killed Kercher in a drug-fuelled sex assault involving a third man. They maintained that the murder weapon was a large knife taken from Sollecito's house. Prosecutors said the knife matched the wounds on Kercher's body and had traces of Kercher's DNA on the blade and Knox's DNA on the handle. |
| However Knox's defenders said she was innocent and was forced to say things she didn't mean during a lengthy police interrogation while bumbling Italian police contaminated the crime scene, producing flawed DNA evidence. Meanwhile an Ivorian man is serving a 16-year sentence for Kercher's killing. | However Knox's defenders said she was innocent and was forced to say things she didn't mean during a lengthy police interrogation while bumbling Italian police contaminated the crime scene, producing flawed DNA evidence. Meanwhile an Ivorian man is serving a 16-year sentence for Kercher's killing. |
| Knox was initially acquitted of the murder after a trial that caught the imagination of the world and she returned home to America to take up life as a student in Seattle. But in a shock decision in March Italy's highest criminal court overturned that acquittal and ordered a new trial for Knox. | Knox was initially acquitted of the murder after a trial that caught the imagination of the world and she returned home to America to take up life as a student in Seattle. But in a shock decision in March Italy's highest criminal court overturned that acquittal and ordered a new trial for Knox. |
| Knox told Sawyer the court's decision was "incredibly painful" and she felt as if she had to crawl through another field of barbed wire after reaching what she thought was the end. | Knox told Sawyer the court's decision was "incredibly painful" and she felt as if she had to crawl through another field of barbed wire after reaching what she thought was the end. |
| Italian law cannot compel Knox to return for the new legal proceedings and the young woman, who has always protested her innocence, shows little sign of going back for any sort of fresh legal ordeal. In the Sawyer interview she repeated her insistence that she had nothing to do with Kercher's death. "I can't be afraid right now. I have to be ready to defend myself," she said. | Italian law cannot compel Knox to return for the new legal proceedings and the young woman, who has always protested her innocence, shows little sign of going back for any sort of fresh legal ordeal. In the Sawyer interview she repeated her insistence that she had nothing to do with Kercher's death. "I can't be afraid right now. I have to be ready to defend myself," she said. |
| During the interview Knox was shown readjusting to life back in America with shots of her studying and playing a guitar while singing a pop song that she learned in jail. She had been changed by her experiences, she said. "My family was expecting the old Amanda back. I am not quite as chirpy anymore." | During the interview Knox was shown readjusting to life back in America with shots of her studying and playing a guitar while singing a pop song that she learned in jail. She had been changed by her experiences, she said. "My family was expecting the old Amanda back. I am not quite as chirpy anymore." |
| Knox did admit to moments of despair while in jail, confessing that she had contemplated taking her own life. "What happened to me was surreal. But it could have happened to anyone." | Knox did admit to moments of despair while in jail, confessing that she had contemplated taking her own life. "What happened to me was surreal. But it could have happened to anyone." |
| Knox has mostly kept a low profile since her return to the US. That has changed as she this week published a memoir of her experiences. The book, Waiting to be Heard, was the subject of a publishing industry bidding war that resulted in her receiving a reported advance of $4m for her version of events. | Knox has mostly kept a low profile since her return to the US. That has changed as she this week published a memoir of her experiences. The book, Waiting to be Heard, was the subject of a publishing industry bidding war that resulted in her receiving a reported advance of $4m for her version of events. |
| The story details her upbringing in Seattle, her early fascination with Italy and her teenage sexual encounters before embarking on what she thought was a year of adventure. She describes Meredith Kercher as "exotically beautiful", sophisticated with her British cool and a good friend, and denies that the pair fell out over men. | The story details her upbringing in Seattle, her early fascination with Italy and her teenage sexual encounters before embarking on what she thought was a year of adventure. She describes Meredith Kercher as "exotically beautiful", sophisticated with her British cool and a good friend, and denies that the pair fell out over men. |
| When it comes to describing the events of Kercher's brutal murder, Knox turns, in the words of one reviewer, to "minutely detailed efforts … to act as her own defence lawyer". The murder investigation is described as a Kafkaesque nightmare of interrogations, misunderstandings, confusions, bewildering accusations, slaps to the back of the head and what she insists was a false confession. | When it comes to describing the events of Kercher's brutal murder, Knox turns, in the words of one reviewer, to "minutely detailed efforts … to act as her own defence lawyer". The murder investigation is described as a Kafkaesque nightmare of interrogations, misunderstandings, confusions, bewildering accusations, slaps to the back of the head and what she insists was a false confession. |
| "After I signed it, everyone mercifully stopped questioning me, but my mind wouldn't rest," she wrote. | "After I signed it, everyone mercifully stopped questioning me, but my mind wouldn't rest," she wrote. |
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