Cops Beat Me, Knox Testifies

Amanda Knox, the American student accused of killing her British roommate while studying in Italy, says the police beat her during questioning, the AP reports. "Everything that I said was said in confusion and under pressure," Knox testified today. Knox also maintained that she spent the night of Meredith Kercher's 2007 murder at the home of her then-boyfriend, co-defendant Raffaele Sollecito. After starting in Italian, she switched to English, the Times of London reports.

"They called me a stupid liar, said I was trying to protect someone," Knox said. After the killing, which prosecutors say began as a sex game between Sollecito and the two women, Knox implicated a local bar owner. But she later withdrew the statement. "In my confusion I started to imagine that maybe I was traumatized," Knox said today, explaining her accusation of Patrick Lumumba.
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