Italian court upholds Amanda Knox slander conviction

Knox hoped conviction for wrongly accusing bar owner of murdering Briton Meredith Kercher would be dropped

A Florence court has upheld a slander conviction against Amanda Knox for wrongly accusing a bar owner of murdering the British student Meredith Kercher.

The American, 36, had asked for the conviction to be dropped, saying she had returned to Italy in the hope of clearing my name once and for all of the false charges against me".