'No way' Amanda Knox will return to Italy to face guilty verdict

The Florence appeals court has reinstated the murder convictions against Amanda Knox and her Italian former boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito.

17:31 31 January 2014

On Thursday night, the Florence appeals court announced that they found Amanda Knox and her Italian former boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito guilty once again of killing British student Meredith Kercher. She was sentenced to 28 1/2 years in prison while he was given a 25-year jail sentence.

However, her parents said that there is ‘no way’ that Ms Knox will go back to Italy to serve her sentence. They added that they were stunned by the verdict.

Knox's father, Curt, said:  "If you look at common sense, you look at evidence … then, no, I wasn't expecting this, absolutely not.”

"They got it right in the first appeals trial where they found her innocent and allowed us to bring her home. And this is totally wrong.”

Meanwhile, Kercher’s brother Lyle is hoping that Ms Knox will be extradited. He said: "I'd imagine they would because as far as I'm aware … the Italian and US governments have a mutual extradition agreement, and I imagine that if the American government didn't assist Italy in procuring them they are going to have the same problems going the other way and probably with other countries.

"I'm sure the American government try to extradite a lot of convicted criminals from abroad themselves so I guess they will set a precedent if they didn't uphold their own laws.”