The Amanda Knox Saga

Amanda Knox served four years in an Italian prison for the murder of her British flatmate Meredith Kercher in Perugia in 2007 always insisting on her innocence In 2011 she was acquitted on the basis of DNA evidence but prosecutors successfully appealed and her acquittal was struck down In 2014 she was again found guilty in absentia after a retrial and sentenced to 28 years and six months in jail The saga came to and end when Italys highest court overturned the convictions of Ms Knox and her former boyfriend Italian student Raffaele Sollecito in March 2015 Known burglar Rudy Guede was arrested a short time later following the discovery of his bloodstained fingerprints on Kerchers possessions He was later found guilty of murder in a fasttrack trial and is currently as of 2019 serving a 16year prison sentence