Italy’s highest court has overturned the murder conviction against Amanda Knox and her ex-boyfriend, bringing to a definitive end the high-profile case.

Italy’s highest court will not rule until tomorrow on whether to uphold the conviction of American Amanda Knox and her Italian ex-boyfriend for the murder of British student Meredith Kercher, a court official said.

Amanda Knox’s defence lawyer urged Italy’s highest court today to overturn the American’s conviction in the 2007 murder of her British roommate, calling it a “grave judicial error”.

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The family of murdered student Meredith Kercher wants Amanda Knox to be extradited from the US if her conviction is upheld in Italy tomorrow, their lawyer has said.

Amanda Knox’s former Italian boyfriend engaged a dramatic change of defence strategy — shedding doubt on her alibi for murder.

Raffaele Sollecito has said his American ex-girlfriend provided alibis for him that he will use to argue Italy’s court of last resort should dismiss his conviction for the murder of her British room-mate Meredith Kercher.

Amanda Knox has again proclaimed her innocence and dismissed the findings of an Italian appeals court that says she delivered the fatal blow to her roommate in 2007.

Amanda Knox claims there is "no logic" to an Italian court’s decision to reinstate her conviction for the murder of British student Meredith Kercher.

The Italian court that convicted Amanda Knox of Meredith Kercher’s murder says the British student’s wounds indicate multiple aggressors, and that the two exchange students fought over money on the night of her death.

The Italian court that convicted Amanda Knox of Meredith Kercher’s murder has said the British student’s wounds indicate multiple aggressors, and that the two exchange students fought over money on the night of her death.

The sister of murdered student Meredith Kercher has spoken of the “fear and terror” she must have felt on the night she died.

The judge who announced the guilty verdicts against Amanda Knox and her former boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito for murder is facing allegations of impropriety.

Amanda Knox vowed to fight her second conviction for the murder of British student Meredith Kercher in 2007 while the two were students together in the Italian university town of Perugia.

Amanda Knox said she will only be extradited to Italy "kicking and screaming", after judges reinstated her murder conviction for the death of British student Meredith Kercher.

Amanda Knox has said she was frightened and saddened after being found guilty of the murder of British student Meredith Kercher and that “justice was perverted”.

An Italian appeals court has upheld the guilty verdict against US student Amanda Knox and her ex-boyfriend for the 2007 murder of her British housemate Meredith Kercher.

American student Amanda Knox is waiting half a world away for the third Italian court verdict over the 2007 killing of her British room-mate, 21-year-old Meredith Kercher.

A prosecutor has urged an Italian court to take steps to make sure that Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito would serve their sentences, if they are convicted of murdering British student Meredith Kercher.

Amanda Knox declared her innocence in her roommate’s 2007 murder in a highly unusual email to the Italian court hearing the case against her. The US former exchange student also said she was staying away from the trial out of fear of being wrongly convicted.

Amanda Knox has declared her innocence over the 2007 murder of British student Meredith Kercher in an email to the Italian court hearing the case against her, and said she was staying away from the trial out of fear of being wrongly convicted.

Amanda Knox should be convicted of murdering British student Meredith Kercher, whose tragic death was in danger of being overlooked, an Italian appeal court has been told.

An Italian prosecutor has demanded that an appeal court find Amanda Knox guilty of the 2007 murder of her British roommate, Meredith Kercher, a killing he argued may have been rooted in arguments about cleanliness and triggered by a toilet left unflushed by the only man now in jail for the murder.

An Italian appeals court has been urged to re-convict Amanda Knox for the murder of British student Meredith Kercher and undo the alleged mistakes of the hearing that freed her.

Amanda Knox’s Italian ex-boyfriend has arrived at an appeals court in Florence, Italy, to make a statement in the pair’s third murder trial over the death of Meredith Kercher.

A Transgender mafia turncoat has accused her brother of the murder of British student Meredith Kercher in 2007 at the retrial of Amanda Knox and her Italian ex-boyfriend.

Amanda Knox’s second appeal trial has agreed to additional DNA tests on the weapon presumed to have murdered her British housemate Meredith Kercher.

Amanda Knox’s second appeal trial has agreed to additional DNA tests on the weapon presumed to have murdered her British housemate Meredith Kercher.

US student Amanda Knox’s second appeals trial to determine her role in the murder of her British housemate is under way in Italy in her absence.

Amanda Knox has defended her decision not to return to Italy to face retrial over the murder of British student Meredith Kercher.

Amanda Knox — the American student accused of murdering her British roommate in Italy in 2007 — said that “common sense” told her not to return to Italy for a retrial due to begin on Sept 30.

An Italian appeals court has set September 30 as the start date for the retrial of American student Amanda Knox in the 2007 death of her British roommate Meredith Kercher.

The former boyfriend of Amanda Knox has repeated his innocence as he prepares to face a retrial over the murder of British exchange student Meredith Kercher.

The acquittal of accused murderer Amanda Knox was full of “deficiencies, contradictions and illogical” conclusions Italy’s high court has ruled, ordering a fresh look at all the evidence to determine whether she did kill her flatmate Meredith Kercher.

Amanda Knox, who may travel to Italy for her retrial in the murder case of British student Meredith Kercher, has blamed prosecutors for creating her media image as a sex-hungry deviant.

Amanda Knox has said she wants to visit the grave of murdered British student Meredith Kercher.

Amanda Knox has said she wants to visit the grave of murdered British student Meredith Kercher.

Amanda Knox has refused to rule out returning to Italy for her murder retrial in the 2007 slaying of her British house-mate.

Amanda Knox has claimed that what happened to her when she went on trial for the murder of British student Meredith Kercher in Italy could have happened to anyone.

Arline Kercher must relive her daughter Meredith’s murder again as the Italian courts review the case after the acquittal of Amanda Knox was thrown out, writes Barbie Latza Nadeau

American Amanda Knox said she considered suicide if her 2007 murder conviction of a British roommate in Italy had not been overturned, according to an advance copy of Knox’s forthcoming memoir.

The Italian presiding appellate judge who acquitted American student Amanda Knox in the murder of her British roommate Meredith Kercher says he remains certain there is no evidence of her guilt.

A lawyer for Amanda Knox said the US college student was “ready to fight” after Italy’s top criminal court overturned her acquittal and ordered a retrial for the murder of her British room-mate Meredith Kercher.

Italy’s highest criminal court yesterday ordered a new trial for Amanda Knox and her former Italian boyfriend, overturning their acquittals in the gruesome slaying of her British roommate.