Amanda Knox returns to Italian courtroom, looking to clear name in slander case

Amanda Knox arrives at court flanked by her husband Christopher Robinson, right, and her layer Luca Luparia Donati in Florence, Italy (AP)

Amanda Knox will return to an Italian courtroom for the first time in more than 12 and a half years to clear her name “once and for all” of a slander charge.

The American was exonerated in the brutal 2007 murder of her 21-year-old British flatmate Meredith Kercher in the idyllic hilltop town of Perugia.