The Italian appeals court that cleared Amanda Knox in the murder of her British roommate Meredith Kercher gave the reasons for its ruling today.

One of the jurors who overturned Amanda Knox’s murder conviction has said he was never convinced by the “conjecture” of the prosecution’s case and that he believed the US student and her co-defendant simply did not kill her British roommate.

Amanda Knox was an innocent girl “crucified” in the media, a defence lawyer argued today as a judge said the verdict in her appeal against her murder conviction would come on Monday.

A DEFENCE lawyer told an Italian court yesterday that Amanda Knox, the American student convicted of killing her roommate, is not a manipulating, sex-obsessed “femme fatale” as her accusers charge, but is rather like Jessica Rabbit — just drawn that way.

The forensic expert whose evidence helped convict Amanda Knox of murdering British student Meredith Kercher today defended her work after a review criticised her methods.

The appeal trial of Amanda Knox, the American student convicted of killing her British room mate during a study abroad programme in Italy, enters its final stretch when it resumes today.

One of the killers of British student Meredith Kercher is to give evidence in the appeal of American Amanda Knox and her former boyfriend against their murder convictions.

American student Amanda Knox’s appeals trial resumes tomorrow with testimony from an Ivorian man also convicted in the slaying of Knox’s roommate in Perugia.

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.

The appeal against a murder conviction by American student Amanda Knox resumed today in Italy, with the court expected to issue a key decision on whether to allow a review of the case’s evidence and new witnesses.

The parents of convicted killer Amanda Knox have once again insisted there is no proof that their daughter murdered British student Meredith Kercher.

Amanda Knox spoke today of her battle to prove she did not kill her British flatmate Meredith Kercher.

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.

THE family of Amanda Knox, convicted of murdering British student Meredith Kercher, has asked lawyers to begin an appeal after reviewing the Italian court’s motivation for the verdict.

The family of Amanda Knox, convicted of murdering British student Meredith Kercher, has asked lawyers to begin an appeal after reviewing the Italian court’s motivation for the verdict.

AMERICAN student Amanda Knox, fighting back tears, told the Italian court trying her for the murder of her British roommate that she doesn’t want to be branded an assassin.

Lawyers for a US student accused of killing her British room-mate in Italy were today wrapping up their closing arguments, urging a court to clear her of all charges.

Lawyers for an American student accused of killing her British roommate in Italy began their closing arguments today, seeking to show that evidence in the case is not sufficient to convict her.

The parents of American student Amanda Knox have been placed under investigation for alleging that Italian police abused Knox before she was arrested for the killing of her British roommate.

Prosecutors are expected to request life in prison for an American student and her former boyfriend accused of killing a young British woman in Italy.

AN AMERICAN student accused of murdering her British roommate in Italy had a growing hatred for the victim and killed her in retaliation during a drug-fuelled sex game, a prosecutor said yesterday in closing arguments at her murder trial.

An Ivory Coast man convicted of killing British student Meredith Kercher launched his appeal today.

A computer expert testified today in the murder trial of an American student and her former Italian boyfriend that someone had used the young man’s computer, which the defence said might have erased data that could prove his innocence.

A BLOODY footprint found at the house where a British student was killed in Italy was wrongly attributed to one of the defendants in the case, a forensic expert testified at the murder trial yesterday.

A bloody footprint found where British student Meredith Kercher was killed in Italy did not belong to an Italian accused of murdering her, a forensic expert claimed today.

An Italian court today refused to dismiss charges against the couple accused of murdering British student Meredith Kercher.

Key DNA findings in the murder of British student Meredith Kercher should be thrown out, lawyers for the couple accused of killing her said today.

A stab wound to the neck of a British student murdered in Italy was caused by a shorter knife than the one believed to be the murder weapon, a coroner told a court today.

The mother of an American student accused of killing her British roommate in Italy today said her daughter and the victim “got along great.”

AN American student accused of murdering her British roommate took the witness stand for the first time yesterday, telling the court she was beaten by police and confused when she was questioned in the days after the killing.

A police forensic expert testified that a knife prosecutors say might have been used to kill a British student bore traces of the DNA of a US co-defendant in the murder trial in Perugia.

A bloody footprint on a bathroom rug matched that of an Italian man charged with the murder of a British university student in 2007, an expert told a court today.

A medical examiner has testified that a British student killed in central Italy was attacked by more than one person, in the trial of an American suspect and her former boyfriend.

A man convicted of the murder of British student Meredith Kercher in Italy has made a brief appearance at the trial of two other defendants but refused to answer questions.

THE US student accused of murdering her British roommate was upset and refused to watch as a graphic video of the postmortem examination on the victim’s body was shown during a closed-doors session in an Italian courtroom yesterday.

The US student accused of murdering her British roommate was upset and refused to watch as a video of the post-mortem examination on the victim’s body was shown during a closed-doors session in an Italian courtroom today.

She grins and chats and on Valentine’s Day sported a T-shirt that read All You Need Is Love. One of the first things she said in court was about a rabbit shaped sex toy.

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.

A witness in the Meredith Kercher murder trial told today how she heard a scream that “made her skin crawl” the night the British student was stabbed to death.

A woman’s bloodied shoe print compatible with the size worn by a US student accused of murdering her British flat mate was found under the body, an Italian detective said today.

The woman accused of murdering British student Meredith Kercher performed a series of bizarre gymnastic stunts in front of puzzled detectives immediately after the killing.

Intruders have broken into the house in Italy where British student Meredith Kercher was murdered.