AMANDA Knox and her ex-lover have been reunited 15 years after they were arrested for the murder of Meredith Kercher.
The now 35-year-old and Raffaele Sollecito, 38, visited the town in Italy they were meant to go to before they were held after the British student was found dead.
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Knox, who was then 20, and Sollecito, then 23, were both twice convicted of the murder and then twice cleared before Italy’s supreme court finally annulled their convictions.
The pair visited the picturesque town of Gubbio, which they planned to go to the day Meredith was found with her throat cut at the house she shared with Knox.
Sollecito said of the trip: “It was so nice. It was the nicest.”
“We had been planning to go there on the day Meredith’s body was found,” he told The Mirror.
“We had been planning that trip because obviously we didn’t know what had happened to her and we had free time that day.
“That was the plan before the discovery of the murder of Meredith.
“It was bitter-sweet to go back as we were supposed to go there in such different circumstances, but it was just nice for us to be able to talk about something that wasn’t the case.”
Knox grew up in Washington with her family, developed a love for Italy and moved there on a student exchange.
On November 2, 2007, Knox arrived at her home, later telling police that she noticed that the front door was open and there was dried blood in the bathroom.
After calling the police, the body of roommate Meredith was found inside her locked bedroom.
Knox and then-boyfriend Sollecito were convicted of stabbing the 21-year-old, from Coulsdon in Surrey.
In 2007, fingerprints were identified at the scene as belonging to Rudy Guede, who was ultimately charged and sentenced for the brutal murder.
In 2021, Guede was released from prison after completing 13 years of a 16-year sentence.
Knox recently spoke to a panel of lawyers and discussed the effect the case had on her family and how the case came to define her and featured in a Netflix documentary about her experiences.
After her experience, she said that people had flocked to apologise to her – even stopping her in the street to say sorry for jumping to conclusions about her.
In 2021, Knox and her partner Christopher Robinson welcomed their first child together.
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