Amanda Knox in Italy: waiting for the slander sentence against Patrick Lumumba

Back in a courtroom in our country 17 years after the night in which Meredith Kercher lost her life

ROME – Amanda Knox is back in Italy. Seventeen years after the death of 21-year-old Meredith Kercher, a British citizen in Perugia as part of the Erasmus project, killed in the student house where she lived, on 6 November 2007. The The 36-year-old American has already been definitively acquitted, together with her then partner Raffaele Sollecito, of the murder charge, for which she served almost 4 years of preventive detention in our country.

lL TRIAL FOR Slander

Today, the 36-year-old American returns again to an Italian courtroom, to respond to the accusation of slander againstPatrick Lumumba. A few hours after the discovery of Meredith’s body, Amanda Knox accused Lumumba, her employer in a pub in the Umbrian city, of being the material author of the assassination. Relations between the two were not excellent, she had been fired. For the crime of slander, Knox was sentenced by the Court of Appeal of Florence to 3 years of prison, which she has already served during her preventive detention for the murder of Meredith . In October 2023, the Supreme Court annulled the sentence, referring it to a new judging panel. A new sentence is expected today.

THE MURDER OF MEREDITH KERCHER

The Ivorian citizen Rudy Guede is the only one to be sentenced to 16 years in prison with an abbreviated sentence, for the murder of Meredith Kercher< /strong>.