Amanda Knox says Italian prison guard fixated on sex
Apr 15, 2013, 9:33 AM | Updated: 10:26 am
Amanda Knox claims she was propositioned for sex by a senior guard and targeted for an affair by another inmate during her time in an Italian prison. (Harper Collins)
(Harper Collins)
Amanda Knox claims she was propositioned for sex by a senior guard and targeted for an affair by another inmate during her time in an Italian prison.
The Seattle resident spent four years in prison after she and her former boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito were convicted of killing Kercher. Knox claims the guard would call her up to an empty office and ask her detailed questions on the topic of sex and make sexual advances.
In a tell-all book due out this month, Knox tells what happened the night her British roommate, Meredith Kercher, was killed in 2007 and details the events that led to her murder conviction and subsequent acquittal in 2011. The story became an international sensation and Harper Collins is publishing the book, due out April 30.
In the book, Knox also writes that she was falsely told soon after her arrival at the prison that she was HIV positive. She also claims that a female inmate wanted to have an affair with her.
Journalist Bob Graham, writing in the
, spoke with one of Knox’s U.S. attorneys to learn details from the 400-page memoir titled “Waiting to Be Heard.”
A substantial section of the book focuses on her supposed confession, where she admitted she was in the house when Kercher was killed. According to Graham, Knox explains she was suffering shock and extreme exhaustion when she made statements to police days after the murder.
