On Wednesday, a Florence court determined that the 36-year-old American had falsely accused Patrick Lumumba, an innocent man, of killing Meredith Kercher, her 21-year-old British roommate, in the town of Perugia in 2007.
Lumumba, a Congolese man, owned the tavern where Knox, a twenty-year-old university student, had worked part-time.
2009 saw the conviction of Knox—dubbed “Foxy Knoxy” by certain media outlets—and her ex-boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito, an Italian, for the murder.
In the 2011 fatal stabbing of the London exchange student, both were acquitted by Italy’s highest court in 2015.
After serving four years in prison, Knox was released in October 2011 following the overturning of the guilty conviction by an appeals court.
She claimed that at the age of 20, she became into the “world’s most hated girl accused of murder” and that she “had to spend my entire life defending and fighting for myself.”
“All I wanted was to go about my life. I made it through,” she remarked.
Knox, a Seattle resident, promised to appeal to Italy’s supreme court, labeling the court’s decision on Wednesday as “unfair” and “not correct.”
