Italian
prosecutors are preparing to use Amanda Knox's alleged links to a
cocaine dealer to extradite her to Italy, it has been reported.
Police
papers allegedly show calls had been made between the 26-year-old
American and a drug dealer in the days before and after the murder of
Meredith Kercher.
Knox
has vowed she would never 'willingly' return to Italy, where she and
ex-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito were reconvicted earlier this year of
the killing of 21-year-old Miss Kercher. Both Knox and Sollecito are
appealing the verdict.
Italian prosecutors are preparing to use
Amanda Knox's alleged links to a cocaine dealer to extradite her to
Italy, it has been reported
Now,
prosecutors are looking to use the information allegedly linking Knox
to a drug dealer to extradite her back to the country, The Mirror has reported.
According
to the paper, local media has claimed numbers found on her mobile phone
also helped lead to the discovery of a drug ring.
Sollecito
and Knox were originally sentenced to 25 and 28 years in prison,
respectively, for the murder of Kercher in Perugia and served four years
before being released on appeal in 2011.
On January 30, an Italian appeals court reconvicted the pair of murdering Miss Kercher - a ruling the pair are again appealing.
Sollecito and Knox were originally
sentenced to 25 and 28 years in prison, respectively, for the murder of
Kercher (pictured) in Perugia and served four years before being
released on appeal in 2011
Rudy Hermann Guede is serving 16 years after a separate fast-track hearing in 2008.
On
Tuesday it was reported Knox could no longer rely on Sollecito being
her alibi after he denied she was with him the whole of the night on
which Miss Kercher was murdered.
Knox and Sollecito have always maintained
that they were together the evening of the brutal 2007 murder after
which Miss Kercher was found half naked her throat slit in the cottage
she shared with Knox.
On Tuesday it was reported Knox could no
longer rely on Sollecito (centre) being her alibi after he denied she
was with him the whole of the night on which Miss Kercher was murdered
But
Sollecito's lawyer Giulia Bongiorno said that 'for the entire first
part of the evening, they were not together. It’s this first part of the
evening that’s new [to his defence]'.
Sollecito has pointed to phone records that show that Knox was away from his house for part of the evening.
In
a dramatic change of legal tactics that he announced in a press
conference in Rome he has now claimed there are ‘anomalies’ in Knox’s
story.
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