A verdict in the slander case retrial ordered by Italy’s highest court is expected on Wednesday, with Ms Knox appearing in an Italian court for the first time in more than 12-and-a-half years. Meredith Kercher was murdered in 2007 (PA)“I will walk into the very same courtroom where I was reconvicted of a crime I didn’t commit, this time to defend myself yet again,” Knox wrote on social media. Ms Knox returned to the United States in October 2011, after her first acquittal. Based on the ruling by the European court, Italy’s highest court threw out Ms Knox’s slander conviction last November and ruled that the two statements typed by police were inadmissible. It ordered a new trial, instructing the Florence court to consider only a handwritten statement that Ms Knox wrote in English some hours later.
