Watch weeping Amanda Knox break down as her slander conviction is UPHELD in final twist of Meredith Kercher murder saga

THIS is the infinitesimal Amanda Knox broke down successful tears aft Italy's highest tribunal upheld her slander condemnation successful a last twist to the Meredith Kercher execution saga.

Knox, who was acquitted successful 2015 of the 2007 sidesplitting of her British roommate Kercher, mislaid her entreaty against a slander complaint for wrongly accusing her erstwhile brag Patrick Lumumba of murder.

The Congolese antheral owned a barroom wherever Knox, past a assemblage student, had worked part-time.

The decision, handed down connected Thursday, leaves American Knox, 37, with a imperishable transgression grounds successful Italy.

In a tearful YouTube video titled Slander Verdict Reaction, Knox opened up astir the ruling: “I’m a small spot astonished due to the fact that I had higher hopes of the court successful Rome.

"But there’s thing other I tin do… It’s truly disappointing due to the fact that there’s thing other I tin do.

"That means I conscionable person a transgression grounds everlastingly for thing I didn’t do.”

She besides took to X aft failing to overturn her slander conviction, saying: "My earthy reactions to the verdict contiguous are successful the nexus below.

"The irony is that portion being wrongly convicted of slander, I'm the astir slandered idiosyncratic successful this full saga.

"The police, prosecutor, media, courts, and the slayer Rudy Guede, person each slandered maine to nary end."

The slander condemnation relates to Knox's 2007 constabulary interrogation during which she accused Lumumba, her then-boss astatine the barroom successful Perugia, of murdering Kercher.

Lumumba was arrested and spent 2 weeks successful jailhouse earlier being released erstwhile investigators recovered nary forensic grounds linking him to the crime.

Knox, who was 20 astatine the time, aboriginal wrote a handwritten enactment questioning her mendacious accusation, but the harm had been done.

Lumumba said the ordeal led to the closure of his bar, Le Chic, and continues to formed a shadiness implicit his life.

Following Thursday's verdict, the antheral said helium was "very satisfied" with it, CNN reports.

He said: “Amanda did wrong, this condemnation indispensable travel her for the remainder of her life.

"I had a bully feeling astir this since the afternoon.

"I hail Italian justness with large honour."

Knox, who did not be the proceeding astatine Italy's apical tribunal connected Thursday and followed it from the US, does not look immoderate further jailhouse time.

That's due to the fact that the condemnation counted arsenic clip already served successful prison.

This was the last section of a analyzable 17-year ineligible saga afloat of twists and turns.

Amanda Knox's ineligible troubles began erstwhile Meredith Kercher's assemblage was recovered successful the flat the 2 students shared successful Perugia.

Knox and her then-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito were convicted of Kercher's murder, acquitted, and aboriginal re-convicted earlier yet being cleared successful 2015.

But the slander condemnation has remained a constituent of contention passim Knox's agelong ineligible battle.

In 2023, the European Court of Human Rights ruled that Knox’s rights were violated during the 2007 interrogation that led to her accusation against Lumumba.

But Italian courts person upheld the slander charge, including Thursday’s ruling by the precocious court.

Knox, who attended a June 2024 proceeding successful Florence, had told the tribunal she regretted not retracting the accusation against Lumumba sooner, describing herself astatine the clip arsenic “a young idiosyncratic successful an existential crisis.”