1-24-2019
SEATTLE, Wash. (AP) — Europe’s human rights court has ordered Italy to pay Amanda Knox financial damages for the failure by police to provide legal assistance and a translator during a long night of questioning following the 2007 murder of her British roommate.
But the court said there was insufficient evidence to support claims of psychological and physical mistreatment at the hands of police.
The European Human Rights Court in Strasbourg, France, has ordered Italy to pay the former University of Washington student $20,000 in damages, costs and expenses.
After more than seven years of legal battles and flip-flop decisions, Knox, who is now 31, was definitively acquitted of Meredith Kercher’s murder by Italy’s highest court in March 2015.
