Last month her acquittal was overturned, meaning the case will be retried in Italy, but the 25-year-old is very unlikely to be extradited to stand trial in person. She also takes the chance to refute the story that she turned cartwheels in the police station after she was arrested - instead, she claims, she was asked by a guard how flexible she was after she mentioned that she enjoyed yoga.Īfter she was released in October 2011, Miss Knox returned to her native Seattle and has now entered into a new relationship. Meredith treated me with respect and a sense of humour.' The American insists in her memoir that she always got on with Miss Kercher, saying: 'We developed a comfortable familiarity in a short time. The pair fell under suspicion when Miss Kercher, 21, from Leeds, was found dead in the home she shared with Miss Knox - she was half-naked and had been stabbed multiple times in the neck, prompting speculation she was the victim of a sex game gone wrong.Įxperience: Miss Knox's new book, right, recounts her trial on suspicion of killing Meredith Kercher, left 'He measured and photographed my intimate parts,' she writes. Ī doctor ordered her to strip and proceeded to examine her genitals with his hand as police looked on. In the book, she claims that the sexual humiliation began as soon as she was arrested along with her boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito, according to the Daily News. She was released in 2011 after an appeal against her conviction was upheld, and has now released an autobiography, entitled Waiting to Be Heard, in which she tells her side of the story.
Miss Knox, 25, spent four years in prison after being accused of murdering her roommate, British student Meredith Kercher, while the pair were studying in Perugia. The American student says that a doctor measured her private parts after she was arrested, while another medic wrongly told her she was HIV-positive.Īnd one senior prison official allegedly harassed her on multiple occasions, asking if she would sleep with him and adding: 'What positions do you like most?' Revelations: Amanda Knox has spoken out about the humiliating ordeal she faced in prison in ItalyĪmanda Knox was repeatedly subjected to sexual assaults from staff and inmates while in an Italian prison, she has claimed in a new memoir.