Amanda Knox breaks her silence on new trial in Italy while Rudy Guede ‘who murdered my roommate is free from prison’ is accused of raping and assaulting his ex-girlfriend

Amanda Knox has insisted she is still 'fighting to clear her name' as the man who brutally murdered her roommate is 'free from prison'.

Knox, 36, was initially convicted of murdering British exchange student Meredith Kercher, 21, at their home in the university city of Perugia, Umbria, Italy, in November 2007.

The American spent almost four years with her then-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito before their convictions were sensationally overturned.

Her conviction for defaming a bartender, whom she falsely accused of murder, was not thrown out at the time, although Italy's highest court overturned it in October and ordered a new trial in Florence.

It was Rudy Guede who was ultimately convicted of Ms Kercher's murder and he was sentenced to 30 years behind bars in 2008. This was later reduced to 18 years and with good behavior he was released on parole in 2021.

He was released from his sentence in June, but earlier this month it emerged he was accused of assaulting his 23-year-old ex-girlfriend.

Meredith Kercher killer Rudy Guede, 36, (photo arrived at an interrogation hearing on December 10) has now been charged with assaulting his ex-girlfriend after his release from prison

British student Meredith Kercher was in Italy as part of her studies at the University of Leeds and had been in the country for less than two months before she was murdered

On X, formerly Twitter, Knox wrote last night: “16 years after my arrest, I am still on trial in Italy and still fighting to clear my name.”

She continued, “Meanwhile, the man who killed my roommate is out of jail,” as she then referenced his latest charge.

Knox has also spoken about the retrial and how she will have to testify in a new podcast.

She added: “We are spending a lot of time investigating the coercive interrogation that led to my arrest, and the defamation charges for which I remain on trial.

“In particular, we discuss the handwritten statement I gave to the police after they released me from the pressure cooker of interrogation.

“Rereading the statement I wrote at the age of 20 was…difficult. I have never been more vulnerable, more vulnerable, more gaslighted, more confused, and at the mercy of authority figures who I had trusted to keep me safe, and who were in the process of destroying my life.”

In another tweet, she added: “I am not afraid to travel back to Italy and stand up in my defense. I was so unprepared for that as a 20-year-old. All these years later, I finally am. And I want my daughter and my son to see how we stand up for the truth and for your principles [sic] resembling.'

Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito both spent nearly four years in prison after being wrongly convicted of murder

Knox initially told investigators that innocent bartender Patrick Lumumba had murdered Ms Kercher by slitting her throat and leaving her bleeding to death.

She claimed she saw the Congolese bartender in November 2007 at the home she shared with 21-year-old Meredith in the Italian hill town of Perugia.

It led to the innocent father-of-two being arrested and held by police for two weeks before being released without charge after an alibi had key evidence showing he was at work at the time.

Kercher was found half-naked and with her throat slit in the bedroom of her home in the hilltop town – just weeks after arriving abroad for a year studying at the University of Leeds.

Guede was found guilty after his DNA was discovered on Kercher's body, despite his claims that he was in the bathroom listening to music when she was killed.

Her body was found partially undressed in her bedroom, with 47 stab wounds.

He was released on parole in 2021 after good behavior in prison and lives in the city of Viterbo, where he works as a researcher and librarian at the Center for Crime, Judicial and Sociological Studies.

Rudy Guede leaves a court hearing in Perugia in September 2008. He was jailed for Mrs Kercher's murder

He also studied a master's degree in historical sciences at Roma Tre University.

After his release from prison, Guede said: “The sentence I had to serve in the name of the law has ended. Now I am marked by the judgment of strangers, by the sideways glances as I walk by.'

But Guede has now been charged with assaulting his 23-year-old ex-girlfriend – six months after he was officially released from prison over Kercher's murder.

The woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons, filed a complaint against Guede earlier this year.

A judge has ordered him to wear an electronic tag and is banned from going within 500 meters of his ex-partner, who is an experienced rider.

The woman who first met Guede two years ago said: 'Rudy started abusing me from the start of our relationship, but I would always forgive him.

'Even when he left bruises on my body and then incredibly blamed me. Rudy destroyed me, he controlled me, violated me and humiliated me.

“I don't want another woman to go through what I went through.”

Mr Sollecito, who was acquitted of the Briton's murder along with his then-girlfriend Knox, also said “it seems Guede hasn't changed” after he was accused of assaulting his girlfriend.