Amanda Knox has said she will return to Italy next month for the first since being definitively cleared in 2015 of killing her former flat mate Meredith Kercher.
The American woman has agreed to speak at criminal justice conference in Modena taking place June 13-15. "The Italy Innocence Project didn't yet exist when I was wrongly convicted in Perugia," Knox said via her Twitter account, @amandaknox, referring to a NGO that helps the victims of miscarriages of justice.
"I'm honored to accept their invitation to speak to the Italian people at this historic event and return to Italy for the first time".
The 31-year-old American was accused of murdering British exchange student Kercher together with her then boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito in Perugia on November 1, 2007.
The pair were arrested five days later and convicted by a court of first instance, but this conviction was subsequently overturned.
The appeal sentence was then thrown out by the Court of Cassation, Italy's supreme court, which ordered a new trial on appeal leading to their re-conviction in 2014.
Knox and Sollecito were eventually acquitted definitively by the supreme court the following year.
An Ivorian, Rudy Guede, was convicted of the murder in a separate fast-track trial and is serving a 16-year sentence.
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