Knox evidence ‘did not hold up’

The Italian appeals court that cleared Amanda Knox in the murder of her British roommate Meredith Kercher gave the reasons for its ruling.

It said the evidence that had been used by a lower court to convict the American and her Italian boyfriend of murder just did not hold up.

Those shortcomings included no murder weapon, faulty DNA, an inaccurate time for the killing, and insufficient proof that Knox and Raffaele Sollecito were even at the location where the crime occurred.

The Perugia appellate court was giving its long-awaited reasoning behind its October ruling that reversed the lower court’s convictions.

Ms Kercher was found dead in a pool of blood on her bedroom floor in Perugia, Italy, on November 2, 2007.