Amanda Knox slams decision to release Meredith Kercher’s killer 12 years after he was jailed

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Amanda Knox has slammed an early release of the man convicted in the killing of Meredith Kercher, her British roommate in Italy 13-years-ago, saying that she wishes “he had been fully held accountable for what he did.” Ms Knox, who spent four years in an Italian prison in the case of Kercher’s death before getting acquitted in 2015, said she was dismayed at the release of Rudy Guede, who was sentenced to 30 years of jail for killing the British exchange student in November 2007. “I do know that many, many, many people have suffered a great deal because of what he did and I continue to this day to be shocked that he is the forgotten killer,” Ms Knox told ABC News. Ms Knox, who was also convicted in the same case along with her then-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito in a separate trial in 2009, said she was disturbed that the “burden” of Guede’s conviction continues to impact her more than a decade later.