Knox ‘more like Jessica Rabbit than she-devil’

Just a day after another lawyer told her appeal hearing in Italy that Knox was “a lying, sex-loving she-devil” Giulia Bongiorno said Knox, the American student found guilty of killing her British flatmate Meredith Kercher, was not a bad person.

He said she was not the “femme fatale” her accusers describe and compared her to Jessica Rabbit, saying she was faithful like the Who Framed Roger Rabbit character.

Knox was convicted of murdering Leeds University student Miss Kercher in Perugia and sentenced to 26 years in prison, while co-defendant Raffaele Sollecito was sentenced to 25 years.

Sollecito’s lawyer, paraphrased a famous line from the movie, saying Knox “is not bad, she’s just drawn that way”.

Knox and Sollecito deny killing Miss Kercher, from Coulsdon in Surrey. A verdict in the appeals case is expected by next week.

By the media as well as in court, Knox has either been described either as a manipulative “she-devil” or as an innocent girl caught in a judicial inferno in a foreign land. Ms Bongiorno said: “One should not mistake tenderness for sexual obsession,” adding the two liked making faces at each other.