Knox ‘scared’ but hopes appeal will find her innocent

AMANDA Knox said from her jail cell yesterday she is scared but hopeful eight days after an Italian court sentenced her to 26 years in prison for the murder of her British roommate.

Knox ‘scared’ but hopes appeal will find her innocent

“I am scared because I don’t know what is going on,” the 22-year-old American student said during a 10-minute visit by two Italian lawmakers, prison officials and a pair of reporters in Capanne prison on the outskirts of Perugia.

Knox has been in jail for two years since she was arrested a few days after the slaying of Meredith Kercher in the house the two students shared in this Umbrian university town.

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