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Angela Giuffrida in Rome

Amanda Knox vows to fight ‘unfair’ rejection of slander appeal

Amanda Knox
Amanda Knox said she was “really disappointed” by the verdict Photograph: Claudio Giovannini/EPA

Amanda Knox has said an Italian court’s decision to uphold her slander conviction for wrongly accusing a bar owner of murdering the British student Meredith Kercher was “unfair and incorrect” and vowed to continue her fight against “this injustice”.

Knox, 36, left through a back exit of a Florence appeals court on Wednesday and cancelled a planned press conference after judges rejected her appeal to have the conviction dropped.

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