A Florence court on Wednesday reinstated Amanda Knox's calumny conviction for fingering former bar owner Patrick Lumumba in relation to the 2007 murder of her flat-mate Meredith Kercher in Perugia. (ANSA)
A Florence court on Wednesday reinstated Amanda Knox's calumny conviction for fingering former bar owner Patrick Lumumba in relation to the 2007 murder of her flat-mate Meredith Kercher in Perugia . Knox initially identified Congo-born Lumumba over the November 1, 2007 murder in the Umbrian city of the 21-year-old British exchange student, a crime for which the American was first convicted with her Italian ex boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito, and finally acquitted after almost four years in jail.
Knox and Sollecito were arrested five days after the murder and convicted by a court of first instance, but this conviction was subsequently overturned. The appeal sentence was then thrown out by the Court of Cassation, Italy's supreme court, which ordered a new trial on appeal leading to their re-conviction in 2014. Knox and Sollecito were eventually acquitted definitively by the supreme court the following year.
Rudy Guede, an Ivorian, was convicted and sentenced to 16 years for the murder. He was released from prison in November 2021 after serving 13 years. In February a court ordered hm to be placed under special surveillance after he was found guilty of beating his ex girlfriend.
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