Amanda Knox to face new trial in Italy over slander conviction

Knox had been found guilty of defamation for wrongly accusing Patrick Lumumba of murdering Meredith Kercher

Italy's top court has ordered a retrial after Amanda Knox appealed 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 of a ruling by the European court of human rights in 2019 that found that her defence rights had been violated during police questioning in 2007.