'This has hit me like a train': Amanda Knox gives first interview since being found guilty again of Meredith Kercher's murder

 
Interview: Amanda Knox
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Amanda Knox has said the news from an Italian court that she has been found guilty once again of the murder of Meredith Kercher has "hit her like a train".

Knox and Sollecito, 29, were originally found guilty of murder in 2009.

Interview: Amanda Knox (Picture: Reuters)
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They were cleared nearly two years later after being handed jail terms totalling more than 50 years - but the appeal court ordered a fresh trial last March.

Knox told ABC's Good Morning America programme on Friday that the new ruling by an Italian appeal court was "wrong".

She now faces extradition from the United State to serve a 28 years and six months prison sentence in Italy.

She said: "I couldn't believe what I was hearing. I mean, my whole family was there listening and I'm the only one who knows Italian so I'm trying to listen and then tell them.

Upset: Knox appeared to become emotional during her television interview (Picture: Reuters)
Reuters

"I'm going through waves of emotion in response to it. My first reaction was; 'no'. This is wrong and I'm going to do everything I can to prove that it is."

She continued: "This has really hit me like a train. I did not expect this to happen. I really expected so much better from the Italian justice system; they found me innocent before...how can they say that it's guilty beyond a reasonable doubt?"

Miss Kercher, a 21-year-old Leeds University exchange student, was found with her throat slashed in the bedroom of the house she shared with Knox in Perugia, central Italy, in November 2007.

Knox and Sollecito are both expected to appeal the new verdict to Italy's Supreme Court.

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