US student tried for Meredith Kercher murder uses TV interview to restate innocence and ask to be 'reconsidered as a person'.


It is intended, writes the book's author, to 'set the record straight' about the events that led to her being incarcerated for four years in an Italian prison and characterised in sections of the international media as a sex-crazed 'she-devil'.

But while Amanda Knox has used her multimillion-dollar new memoir, published on Tuesday in the US, to insist again on her innocence of the murder of her flatmate, Meredith Kercher, in 2007, it seems unlikely that the book will, as she hopes, 'answer everyone's questions' about a killing that could yet see her prosecuted again over the British student's death.

Knox's book, Waiting to be Heard, was the subject of a publishing industry bidding war last year that resulted in her receiving a reported advance of $4m for her story. On Tuesday night in her first TV interview – part of an energetic publicity campaign by the publisher, Harper Collins – the 25-year-old, from Seattle, told ABC's Diane Sawyer she would 'like to be reconsidered as a person'. 'What happened to me was surreal. But it could have happened to anyone,' she said.

Kercher, a 21-year-old Leeds university student from Coulsdon, Surrey, died in a vicious knife attack while on a year's exchange prog.