Appeal opens into Knox sex murder conviction

A NERVOUS looking Amanda Knox began her appeal yesterday against her conviction for the sex-murder of a British student in the medieval Italian city of Perugia in 2007.

Knox, a 23-year-old from Seattle who was jailed for 26 years for the murder, gripped the edges of the sleeves of her blue cardigan and nodded while talking with her lawyers.

“We feel as though we have a very good case,” her stepfather Chris Mellas said ahead of the hearing.