Amanda Knox to begin murder conviction appeal

AN appeal by Amanda Knox, the American woman jailed for the sex-murder of a British student in Italy, is set to bring her 26-year conviction back into the international spotlight today.

Knox, 23, was sentenced last year for the 2007 murder of Meredith Kercher, her housemate and fellow foreign student in the medieval city of Perugia in central Italy, during a drug-fuelled sex game that went horribly wrong.

Kercher was found on November 2, 2007, half-naked in a pool of blood with stab wounds to the neck in her room in the cottage she shared with Knox.