‘I did not kill, I did not rape, I wasn’t there’

AHEAD of yesterday’s verdict, Amanda Knox made a heartfelt plea for freedom.

She broke down while telling an appeal court, in near-perfect Italian and without notes, that she was innocent of the murder of British student Meredith Kercher:

“MEMBERS of the court. Many times people have said I am the person (who killed) but people don’t understand whom I am.