Italian prosecutors yesterday called on the country's highest criminal court to reinstate the murder convictions of Amanda Knox and her former boyfriend.

Prosecutors have asked Italy's highest criminal court to reinstate the murder convictions of Amanda Knox and her former boyfriend for the murder of British student Meredith Kercher.

Amanda Knox is seeking to have her slander conviction overturned, four months after she was cleared of killing her room-mate Meredith Kercher.

Review criticises lack of DNA evidence and police treatment of American and Italian co-defendant

Amanda Knox is planning to sell her story of her murder trial after hiring a literary agent to negotiate what she hopes will be a lucrative book deal.

Three weeks after he and Amanda Knox were cleared of murdering the British student Meredith Kercher, Raffaele Sollecito has been reported as saying that he hoped to travel to the US to visit Miss Knox before Christmas.

The forensic expert whose evidence helped convict Amanda Knox of murdering British student Meredith Kercher today defended her work after a review criticised her methods.

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The investigators who collected the genetic evidence used to convict American student Amanda Knox of murder in Italy made a series of glaring errors, including using a dirty glove and not wearing caps, two independent forensic experts said today.

Some of the DNA traces used to convict American student Amanda Knox of murdering Briton Meredith Kercher may have been contaminated, independent experts say.

American student Amanda Knox, appealing against her conviction for murder, clashed in an Italian court today with one of the two men found guilty with her of killing her British flatmate.