Amanda Knox has been sensationally ordered to stand a re-trial over the 2007 killing of her British flatmate Meredith Kercher in Perugia. Miss Knox said the news that the Italian court had overturned the acquittals of her and ex-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito for the murder was both ‘painful’ and ‘unfair.’ Knox, 25, and her Sollecito, 29, spent four years in jail, but were freed on appeal in 2011 largely on the grounds DNA evidence was flawed. Knox returned to the U.S. after she was freed and now lives in Seattle – Italian law cannot compel her to return for the re-running of her appeal, but if she is convicted, Italy could seek her extradition.In a statement, Miss Knox said: ‘It was painful to receive the news that the Italian Supreme Court decided to send my case back for revision when the prosecution’s theory of my involvement in Meredith’s murder has been repeatedly revealed to be completely unfounded and unfair.’
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