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Amanda Knox ‘paralyzed’ with Anxiety: Was Reading Harry Potter On Night Of Murder
Amanda Knox ‘paralyzed’ with Anxiety: Was Reading Harry Potter On Night Of Murder
The anxiety suffered by Amanda Knox, the American citizen who spent four years in an Italian prison for a murder she insists she did not comment, is so intense that she categorizes it as “paralyzing.”
Knox claims to have been reading a Harry Potter book, smoking marijuana and watching the film Amelie at her boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito’s flat on the night that Meredith Kercher was killed.
Although she was released from prison and able to return to her home in Seattle after being acquitted in the 2007 slaying of her roommate, the Italian criminal court has overturned that verdict and is demanding a new trial.
In her memoir, Waiting to Be Heard, a preview copy of which has been obtained by the New York Times before its publication on 30 April, Knox sets out a detailed alibi as to her whereabouts on the night her roommate Kercher was murdered.
“Until now I have personally never contributed to any public discussion of the case or what happened to me,” she writes in the author’s notes. “Now that I am free, I’ve finally found myself in a position to respond to everyone’s questions. This memoir is about setting the record straight.”
Italian law cannot compel Knox to physically return to Italy to attend the new trial’s proceedings and a spokesman for the family says it is very unlikely that she would agree to go through another legal ordeal.
Knox was an exchange student in Italy when she was arrested along with her then-boyfriend in the murder of another student and roommate. Although she has been back in Washington State since 2011, Knox revealed in a recent interview that she experiences very emotional episodes in which she feels utterly helpless as well as fearful. She also admits to considering suicide by suffocation or swallowing glass. Now a University student, she has written about her experiences in Italy in a new book called “Waiting to be Heard” set for release later this month.
On The Web:
Amanda Knox: Paralyzing anxiety, considered suicide
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/04/18/amanda-knox-anxiety/2095119/
Amanda Knox: I was reading Harry Potter and smoking marijuana on night Meredith Kercher was murdered
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/news/amanda-knox-i-was-reading-harry-potter-and-smoking-marijuana-on-night-meredith-kercher-was-murdered-8580201.html