New trial of Amanda Knox under way in Italy

US student Amanda Knox’s second appeals trial to determine her role in the murder of her British housemate is under way in Italy in her absence.

The country’s highest court ordered a new trial for Knox and her former Italian boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito, overturning their acquittals over the 2007 killing of Leeds University student Meredith Kercher, 21, from Coulsdon, Surrey.