Amanda Knox, a former American
exchange student in Italy at the centre of a sensational murder
case, teared up at the Italian Criminal Justice Festival on
Friday.
She was moved to tears while listening to speeches by Peter
Pringle, an Irish national who spent 14 years in jail on death
row after being accused of a murder for which he was later
exculpated, and Taranto native Angelo Massaro, who was acquitted
and released after initially being found guilty of murder.
Knox had arrived Thursday in Italy for the first time since
an appeals court acquitted her in 2011 for the 2007 murder of
British exchange student Meredith Kercher, her roommate in
Perugia.
She had previously been found guilty and imprisoned for the
young woman's death.
The conference in Modena was organized by the Italy Innocence
Project, which seeks to help people convicted of crimes they did
not commit.
Knox was seated in the audience alongside her fiancee
Christopher Robinson and hugged Pringle after his speech,
exchanging a few words with Massaro as well.
Earlier in the day she had left the forum due to too many
photographers.
On Saturday, the 31-year-old from Seattle will be speaking
publicly for the first time since she returned to Italy.
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