Knox turns to gangster and child killer for justice

AMANDA Knox and her lover Raffaele Sollecito turned to a convicted child killer and a mobster in their bid to overturn their convictions for the murder of British student Meredith Kercher at the weekend.

Both men told the court hearing the pair’s appeal that Knox and Sollecito had nothing to do with the 21-year-old’s death in 2007.

Mario Alessi, serving a sentence for killing a child, told the hearing that a friend of co-defendant Rudy Guede had killed the Briton to silence her after she resisted a sexual assault.