Amanda Knox speaks to the media during a brief press conference in front of her parents’ home in Seattle, Washington. Knox and Raffaele Sollecito were acquitted by Italy’s highest court of the murder of British student Meredith Kercher, who was killed in her bedroom on 1 November 2007 in Perugia. Knox said she is ‘tremendously relieved and grateful’ about the decision, and thanked supporters. ‘To them, I say: Thank you from the bottom of my heart. Your kindness has sustained me. I only wish that I could thank each and every one of you in person.’

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