Knox should pay for crime, say lawyers

AMANDA KNOX killed her British roommate “for no reason” and the American student and her former boyfriend should face the maximum penalty for their crime, her appeals trial was told yesterday.

Prosecutors urged the court to uphold Knox’s sentence for murder and said the 24-year-old would flee Italy if freed.

Knox, jailed for 26 years, and her Italian ex-boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito, are fighting their convictions for the murder of Briton Meredith Kercher in 2007. A verdict is due this weekend.