CONTESTED DNA evidence played a pivotal role in the appeal to clear the names of Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito.

A key prosecution witness testifying in Amanda Knox’s appeals trial gave conflicting reports today about whether he saw the American near the crime scene the night her British roommate was murdered.

A key prosecution witness testifying in Amanda Knox’s appeals trial has given conflicting reports as to whether he saw the American near the crime scene on the night her British roommate was murdered.

An Albanian man told a trial in Perugia, Italy, in sometimes incoherent testimony today that an American student charged with the murder of her British roommate had waved a knife above her head outside of the apartment house.

A prosecution witness has testified he saw the two suspects accused of killing a British woman in Italy in a basketball court near the site of the murder at the time the victim is believed to have died.