Knox confident of being cleared in murder retrial

Italy’s highest criminal court yesterday ordered a new trial for Amanda Knox and her former Italian boyfriend, overturning their acquittals in the gruesome slaying of her British roommate.

The move extended a prolonged legal battle that has become a cause célèbre in the US and raised a host of questions about how the next phase of Italian justice would play out.

Knox, now a 25-year-old University of Washington student in her home of Seattle, called the decision by the Court of Cassation in Rome “painful” but said she was confident she would be exonerated.