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STORY: Amanda Knox, the American jailed in Italy in a case linked to the murder of her British flatmate Meredith Kercher in 2007, spoke to media in Florence, Italy, after an Italian court convicted her again of slander this week.

At one point visibly shaken in the interview…she called herself a “victim” and said she did not know who killed Kercher.

"I was very surprised by this verdict to tell the truth, I thought it was a very clear matter, that there is a document in question that we can all read and the message of this document is I do not know who killed Meredith."

Knox, who maintains she has been wrongly framed in the stabbing of 21-year-old Kercher in the city of Perugia, had returned to Italy in hopes to clearing her name in the last legal case against her.

An appeals court in Florence on Wednesday upheld a slander charge against Knox, for wrongly accusing Congolese bar owner Patrick Lumumba of killing Kercher.

Lumumba was held for two weeks in 2007 before he was freed.

His lawyer told reporters before Wednesday’s hearing, Lumumba became known everywhere as “the monster of Perugia” after Knox accused him.

Knox said she named Lumumba while under duress as police questioned her.

Tabloid newspapers made Knox’s trials a sensation following the killing, and thrust upon her the nickname “Foxy Noxy”.

"I am not Foxy Noxy, I am Amanda Knox and I did not slander, I did not kill."

While the latest sentence for Knox will have no practical impact as it is covered by the time Knox spent in prison, she’s set to appeal against the verdict to Italy’s highest court.

Italy’s top court annulled Knox’s murder conviction in 2015, and sentenced an Ivory Coast man, Rudy Guede to 16 years in jail for the killing of Kercher. He was granted early release in 2021.