Amanda Knox has been granted a full review of the forensic evidence used to convict her of the murder of British student Meredith Kercher.
The evidence against the 23-year-old American will now be re-examined independently.
Knox was found guilty in Italy last year of stabbing the 21-year-old University of Leeds student to death after a sex game.
Defence lawyers for Knox and her Italian ex-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito, also jailed for the murder, argued that DNA evidence found on a knife allegedly used in the murder and on the clasp of Miss Kercher’s bra was inconclusive and have also argued it may have been contaminated when analysed.
Miss Kercher, from Coulsdon, Surrey, was found dead on November 2, 2007 in her bedroom at the house in the Umbrian hilltop town she shared with Knox and others during her year abroad. Her throat had been slit and her semi-naked body partially covered by a duvet.
Agencies