Amanda Knox has revealed in a new interview she actually feels gratitude for being wrongly convicted of murdering student flatmate Meredith Kercher.

The US writer and broadcaster, 37, who served four years in an Italian prison for the British student's killing, made the claims while promoting her new memoir - saying she now feels she knows herself better.

Ms Kercher, a 21-year-old from Coulsdon in south London, was found stabbed to death in her bedroom at the apartment she shared with Ms Knox in the Italian hilltop town of Perugia on November 2 2007.

American student Ms Knox, 20 at the time, and her Italian boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito, who was 23, were arrested four days later and went on to be convicted at trial twice.

Both convictions were overturned due to a lack of any evidence linking them to the crime and the pair were ultimately exonerated by Italy’s highest court in 2015.