Knox expects to be freed from prison by Thanksgiving

US STUDENT Amanda Knox, who is appealing her conviction for the 2007 murder of her British housemate in Italy, is hopeful she could be free in time for the US Thanksgiving holiday on November 24.

Knox, 24, told the Il Messaggero daily newspaper through her lawyer that she felt the court was finally listening to her version of events, and she said she always believed the truth would emerge.

The American and her former Italian boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito have been sentenced to 26 and 25 years in jail respectively for the murder of Meredith Kercher, who was found half-naked with her throat slit in a flat she shared with Knox in the university city of Perugia.