Knox had been found guilty of defamation for wrongly accusing Patrick Lumumba of murdering Meredith Kercher
First published on Fri 13 Oct 2023 18.36 CESTappealed for the dropping of the slander conviction she received for wrongly accusing a bar owner of murdering the British student Meredith Kercher.
Knox, an American who, along with her Italian ex-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito, spent four years in prison after initially being convicted of the murder, made the request on the basis ofThe challenge to the conviction has also been enabled by a reform to the code of criminal procedure made by the government of the then Italian prime minister Mario Draghi in 2022.
Kercher, a 21-year-old student from Coulsdon, south London, was murdered in the home she shared with Knox in the university town of Perugia in November 2007. Her body was found in her bedroom, partly undressed with multiple stab wounds. She had also been sexually assaulted.As everyone knows, on March 27th, 2015, the Court of Cassation definitively acquitted me and Raffaele Sollecito of the murder of Meredith Kercher, per non aver commesso il fatto—for not having committed the act.
Knox was also previously ordered to pay Lumumba compensation. “But he never received a cent,” added Pacelli. The allegation led Lumumba to lose his business and move his family out ofof the murder in a high court ruling in 2015 that described “stunning flaws” in the investigation that led to their initial convictions.
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