Amanda Knox: doubts over reliability of DNA evidence court hears

Sep. 14, 2009
Crucial forensic evidence which could convict American student Amanda Knox of the murder of her British flatmate Meredith Kercher is so scant that it cannot be relied on a court in Italy has heard.
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