Amanda Knox Faces Re-Trial Over The Murder Of Meredith Kercher

Italy’s highest appeal court has overturned Amanda Knox’s acquittal for the murder of her roommate, Meredith Kercher, and has ordered a re-trial.

The Irish Independent reports that prosecutors have succeeded in getting the high court to dismiss the acquittals of Amanda Knox and her Italian ex-boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito, in the murder of 21-year-old British student Meredith Kercher.

This ruling, which comes more than five years after Meredith was found dead, means that Knox will not have to return to Italy just yet however she is worried about the decision.

“It was painful to receive the news that the Italian Supeme Court decided to send my case back for revision. The prosecution’s theory of my involvement in Meredith’s murder has been revealed to be completely unfounded and unfair,” said Knox, talking to Komo News in Seattle.

Speaking yesterday, Knox said she was “very anxious” after getting word that prosecutors had spent six hours arguing for the case to be reopened in court.

Meredith was found dead in the home she shared with Kercher back in 2007

Franceso Maresca, the Kercher family lawyer, said that he had spoken to Meredith’s older sister, Stephanie, and that she was “very happy and satisfied” that the case was being opened again.

Meredith, a student at the University of Leeds, was found dead in a pool of blood in her bedroom back in November 2007. She was partially clothed and her throat had been slashed. The student had been studying on a year abroad and was living with Knox at the time of her death.

In October 2008, a man named Rudy Guede was found guilty of sexually assaulting and murdering Kercher and is currently serving 16 years in prison.

In December 2009, after a separate trial, Knox and Sollecito were also convicted of the killing and were sentenced to 26 and 25 years in jail respectively.

After four years in prison, Knox and Sollecito were acquitted of the murder and released in October 2011. The court found that the DNA evidence used to convict them had been unreliable.

The family of Meredith Kercher have told the media that they still have a host of “unanswered questions” about what happened to their daughter.