By Cristiano Corvino FLORENCE, Italy (Reuters) – U.S. scholar Amanda Knox pleaded her innocence in the homicide of her roommate Meredith Kercher in an e-mail to an Italian courtroom on Tuesday, pronouncing she was once afraid to appear in individual for worry of conviction. I didn’t kill Meredith, I didn’t participate in her homicide,” the prolonged letter written in Italian mentioned, learn to the court by way of her legal professional Luciano Ghirga in closing arguments for the protection. Kercher’s half of-bare physique used to be discovered with greater than 40 stab wounds and a deep gash in her throat within the apartment she shared with Knox in Perugia, a picturesque city where each have been learning as college change students. The coed, 26, and her Italian former boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito, 29, were convicted of murdering Kercher in 2009, in a verdict overturned in a subsequent trial.