Suspected killer comforted by mother

The mother of a US student suspected in the murder of her British flatmate comforted her daughter in an Italian jail today, the prison’s chaplain said.

Amanda Marie Knox, 20, of Seattle, is being held in the Umbria town of Perugia while authorities investigate the murder of a British student with whom she shared living quarters. Also in jail are Knox’s Italian boyfriend and the Congolese owner of a bar she frequented in Perugia, where she attended university.