ITALIAN prosecutors have lodged an appeal against the acquittal of US student Amanda Knox, accusing her of murdering her British housemate Meredith Kercher in the university town of Perugia in 2007.
Perugia prosecutor Giovanni Galati said he was "convinced" that Knox and her then Italian boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito were behind the gruesome killing.
Mr Galati said the acquittal, which was based mainly on the admissibility of DNA evidence in the case, contained "omissions and many mistakes".
Knox and Sollecito, who had been sentenced to 26 and 25 years in prison, were acquitted on appeal in October after four years in prison.
A third person, a local Ivory Coast-born drifter named Rudy Guede, who like the other two has always denied the murder, is the only person still in prison for the crime which prosecutors described as a frenzied sex attack.
Knox, who returned to her home town of Seattle in the United States immediately after her acquittal, cannot be extradited back to Italy.Last week Knox's lawyers appealed against a separate conviction for slandering her former employer, bar owner Patrick Lumumba.
In her first police interrogation she said that Lumumba was behind the murder and that she was in the house at the time of the killing.
She later claimed that she had been at Sollecito's house all night.
The same court that acquitted her sentenced her to time already served for slander and said she would have to pay compensation and legal fees to Lumumba.
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