Italy’s top court upholds Amanda Knox’s slander conviction over Kercher murder

Amanda Knox was exonerated over the murder in 2015 (Ted S Warren/AP)

Italy’s highest court on Thursday upheld a slander conviction against US defendant Amanda Knox for accusing an innocent man in her British flatmate’s 2007 murder.

Ms Knox had appealed against the conviction based on a European Court of Human Rights ruling that said her rights had been violated by the police’s failure to provide a lawyer and adequate translator during a long night of questioning just days after Meredith Kercher’s murder.