Women police 'had it in' for Knox, says her lawyer

Fears: Amanda Knox faces life sentence

The prime suspect in the Meredith Kercher murder investigation said she feared she would be convicted of a crime she did not commit.

Amanda Knox wrote notes in Italian insisting she is innocent of the British student's murder.

As she sat in the courtroom listening to her lawyer's summing up yesterday, the 22-year-old American wrote: "I am scared that I am going to be convicted for something that I didn't do."

It came as jurors were told women police in the investigation "had it in" for Knox, who is jointly charged with her former boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito, 25, of killing Miss Kercher, 21, on 2 November 2007. Both are facing life sentences.

The body of the Leeds University student from Coulsdon, Surrey, was found semi naked with her throat cut after, prosecutors say, she refused to take part in a drug fuelled sex game.

Today Luciano Ghirga, defending Knox, said the "clash between women from the Perugia flying squad" and his client led to her arrest.

He said: "They had it in for her just because she had condoms and a vibrator in her beauty case."

He added Knox "had suffered as a result of this antagonism."

The case continues.

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