A court in Florence has reconvicted Amanda Knox for slander, years after she was acquitted of murdering her British roommate Meredith Kercher in 2007. A court in Florence has reconvicted Amanda Knox for slander, years after she was acquitted of murdering her British roommate Meredith Kercher in 2007.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 been sexually assaulted.
Knox was handed a three-year jail term after wrongly accusing Lumumba, who owned a bar where she worked part-time in Perugia, of having committed the crime. Lumumba spent two weeks in jail and was released only after a witness came forward with an alibi for him. Knox’s sentence was served during the four years she was imprisoned before being found not guilty of Kercher’s murder on appeal in 2011.