Knox family askslawyers to appeal

The family of Amanda Knox, convicted of murdering Leeds University student Meredith Kercher, has asked lawyers to begin an appeal after reviewing the Italian court's motivation for the verdict.

The judges who convicted Knox and former boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito in December have said they saw the killing as a result of accidental circumstances in what started as a sexual assault by another convicted man, Rudy Hermann Guede.