AMANDA Knox and her lover Raffaele Sollecito turned to a convicted child killer and a mobster in their bid to overturn their convictions for the murder of British student Meredith Kercher at the weekend.

A convicted child murderer testified today at the appeal hearing for Amanda Knox, saying that a fellow inmate had told him the American student had nothing to do with her British roommate’s murder.

A convicted child murderer has taken the stand at the appeal hearing of Amanda Knox, claiming he has information clearing the American student of killing her British roommate.

A man convicted of the murder of British student Meredith Kercher has written a letter implicating his co-defendants and denying he ever said they had nothing to do with the murder.

This is a lowbrow comedy, with a minimum of laughs, about a guy (Cregger) who emerges from a four-year coma to find the sweetheart love of his life (Alessi) has turned into a Playboy centrefold pin-up.

Italy’s justice minister has ordered an investigation into why a man arrested over the abduction and killing of a toddler was not behind bars despite previous convictions in a rape and kidnapping case.

PROSECUTORS in the slaying of a toddler that has horrified Italians said yesterday investigators had believed until the bitter end that the boy might be alive and said his death constituted a “moral defeat”.