Gifts for killer Knox

AMANDA KNOX has been given a large bag of Christmas presents by shopkeepers from a town near her prison, her mother said yesterday.

American Knox, 22, was sentenced this month to 26 years in jail for the sexual assault and murder of British student Meredith Kercher.

Speaking from Perugia, Italy, where her daughter is behind bars, Edda Mellas said the gifts had been given to her by merchants in the nearby historic town of Assisi. But she will not be permitted to give Knox many of the gifts due to prison regulations, she said.