Amanda Knox ‘freely’ accused man over roommate’s murder, Italian court says

Amanda Knox arrives flanked by her husband, Christopher Robinson, right, and her lawyer, Luca Luparia Donati, left, at a court in Florence, Italy, on June 5 2024 (Antonio Calanni/AP)

Amanda Knox’s hand-written memo at the centre of her latest retrial for falsely accusing a Congolese bar owner over the 2007 murder of her British housemate contained enough elements for her to be reconvicted of slander in June, an Italian appeals court has said.

The slander conviction remains the only one remaining against Knox long after she was definitively exonerated of the murder, and she travelled to Florence in June hoping to remove the last legal stain against her – only to be convicted again.