• Amanda Knox cleared of murder of Meredith Kercher

• Former boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito also cleared

• Knox to pay 22,000 Euros to barman she falsely accused of murder

• "Thankful that Amanda's nightmare is over", says Knox's sister

• 'I did not kill, I did not rape my friend', Knox told court

• Kercher family: 'Meredith has been hugely forgotten

• 'Brutality' of 2007 murder makes 'it very difficult to forgive'



A jury in Perugia, where the murder took place four years ago, overturned Knox's 26-year jail sentence for the sexual assault and murder of the Leeds University student.



She will walk free from Capanne prison, outside Perugia, after serving four years for a crime that the appeal court ruled she did not commit.