
An Italian jury has found American student Amanda Knox and her Italian boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito guilty for murdering Knox's British roommate, Meredith Kercher
Knox was sentenced to 26 years in prison and Sollecito was sentenced to 25 years.
Both were convicted on all charges except theft and together must pay 5 million euros ($7.4 million) to the victim's family. In addition, Knox must pay 40,000 euros ($60,000) to a man whom she falsely accused of the killing.
As soon as the judge began reading the verdict, Amanda Knox began crying. She murmured, no, no. And she hugged one of her lawyers. And she immediately left the courtroom without looking back at her family members, many of them were also crying. We heard the - the next thing we heard, the last we saw of her was she was taken away in a police van with the sirens sounding...

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