ROME, (Reuters) – American student Amanda Knox left Italy for home today after an appeals court acquitted her of murdering British student Meredith Kercher and freed her from four years in jail.
Knox, from Seattle, was freed by a court in the Umbrian hill town of Perugia on Monday night after a sensational appeal trial that gripped public attention on both sides of the Atlantic.
Airport officials said she and her family left Italy for London, where they were due to board a connecting flight to their hometown.
The court also freed Knox’s former boyfriend, Italian computer student Raffaele Sollecito. Both were convicted in 2009 of murdering 21-year-old Kercher during what prosecutors said was a drug-fuelled sexual assault in the university city.
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