By using Susan Heavey and Naomi O’Leary WASHINGTON/FLORENCE, Italy (Reuters) – Amanda Knox vowed on Friday to struggle her 2d conviction for the murder of British pupil Meredith Kercher in 2007 whereas the two have been college students together in the Italian university city of Perugia. Talking on U.S. tv a day after her conviction through a court docket in Florence, the 26-yr-old American stated that she would by no means willingly return to Italy to serve the 28-half of 12 months sentence handed down with the aid of judges. Knox and her Italian former boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito were each discovered guilty of killing the 21-year-outdated Kercher, who was discovered stabbed to death in an apartment the two young girls shared in Perugia. Knox has remained in her U.S. fatherland of Seattle since being launched from prison in 2011 after an attraction overturned an authentic conviction and freed her and Sollecito after 4 years in custody.l Neither her sentence nor the 25-yr jail term surpassed to Sollecito will have to be served pending additional appeals, and a protracted prison struggle is now in prospect.