Knox mother gives evidence in trial
Updated on 19 June 2009
The mother of Amanda Knox is giving evidence at her daughter's trial where she is accused of murdering British student Meredith Kercher.
Amanda Knox and Italian co-defendant Raffaele Sollecito, her ex-boyfriend, are accused of murdering Kercher after she refused to join in their sex games.
Knox, 21, has said she was with Sollecito in his Perugia apartment on the night of the murder on 2 November 2007.
She did not return to the apartment she shared with Kercher until the next morning, she claimed.
The 25-year-old Italian said he was at his own apartment the entire night of 1 November and that he did not remember if Knox spent the whole night with him or just part of it.
Knox claims that a "crescendo" of police pressure had led her to change her story several times and accuse an innocent man.
Diya "Patrick" Lumumba, a Congolese man who owns a pub in Perugia, was jailed briefly but was later cleared and is seeking defamation damages from Knox.
A third suspect has already been convicted in a separate trial of Kercher's murder.
