Family call for Amanda Knox extradition back to Italy

The family of murdered student Meredith Kercher wants Amanda Knox to be extradited from the US if her conviction is upheld in Italy tomorrow, their lawyer has said.

Kercher, a 21-year-old student from Coulsdon, Surrey, was sexually assaulted and stabbed to death in her bedroom in 2007 while studying in Perugia, Italy.

Her flatmate Knox, a student from Seattle, and Knox’s then boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito, spent four years in jail for the murder but were acquitted on appeal in 2011. Knox returned to the US before an appeal court threw out the acquittal and reinstated her and Sollecito’s guilty verdicts last year.