Knox branded a ‘diabolical she-devil’ in court

AMANDA KNOX, the American student convicted of killing her British roommate, is a “she-devil” who deliberately accused an innocent man to cover her own crime, a lawyer for the man unjustly implicated in the case said yesterday.

Knox was convicted of sexually assaulting and murdering Meredith Kercher while they were studying in Perugia in 2007, and sentenced to 26 years. She denies wrongdoing and has appealed the lower court’s verdict, issued in 2009.

Early in the probe, Knox accused Diya “Patrick” Lumumba of being the murderer. As a result of that claim, Lumumba was jailed for about two weeks — then cleared and freed.