Amanda Knox – the Seattle woman who spent four years in jail accused of the murder in Italy of her British roommate Meredith Kercher – has told an American television interviewer that she wants to one day visit the slain woman's grave.

Proclaiming her innocence in her first interview since being freed, Knox, 25, told ABC's Diane Sawyer that she wanted to pay her respects but only if the Kercher family agreed. 'Eventually I can have their permission to pay my respects at her grave and I would also like them to know that she talked about them to me,' she said.

'About how she wanted to be a journalist like her dad and she talked about her sister … if all I can give them is this memory that I have of her to add to all theirs that they can carry with them when she's gone.'

That does not seem likely. The Kercher family has dismissed suggestions of any reconciliation with Knox and frequently complained that the media coverage of the death has focused more on 'foxy Knoxy' than the victim.

Knox told Sawyer that on the night of Kercher's death she had sex, smoked a joint, and joked and chatted with Raffaele Sollecito, her boyfriend. Despite getting high she still knew what happened on that night, she said.
She told Sawyer: 'I want the truth to come out. I'd like to be reconsidered as a person.' She was aware of being labelled a seductress, a she-devil and .