09:40 ET<\/span><\/span><\/p>\nA convicted child murderer has told a court he has information which could clear Amanda Knox, who was found guilty of killing her British roommate.<\/p>\n
American Knox, 23, is appealing against her murder conviction for killing 21-year-old Meredith Kercher in Italy.<\/p>\n
Mario Alessi told the appeal of a prison confession made to him by Rudy Guede, who was also convicted, in a separate case, of killing Miss Kercher.<\/p>\n
He said Guede confided Knox and Rafaelle Sollecito were innocent.<\/p>\n
Sollecito, Knox’s 26-year-old former boyfriend, is also appealing against his murder conviction.<\/p>\n
Alessi is a Sicilian worker who was sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of 18-month old Tommaso Onofri in 2006.<\/p>\n
He told the court in the Italian town of Perugia that Guede made the claim in November 2009, during recreation time at the Viterbo prison.<\/p>\n
Ivory Coast national Guede has denied the claim.<\/p>\n
Mafia claims<\/span><\/p>\nFour other inmates, who claim they have information which clears both Knox and Sollecito, are due to give evidence in the appeals trial.<\/p>\n
Among them is Luciano Aviello, a Mafia member, who is expected to claim that his brother, a fugitive from justice, killed Kercher as he was robbing apartments in the neighbourhood.<\/p>\n
“The importance of Aviello is that the previous court wouldn’t hear him, and from what I understand of it that’s actually against the law,” said Knox’s stepfather, Chris Mellas.<\/p>\n
Knox is serving a 26-year sentence while co-defendant Italian Sollecito was sentenced to 25 years.<\/p>\n
Miss Kercher, from Coulsdon, south London, was found with her throat cut at her flat in Perugia.<\/p>\n
Prosecutors said the murder followed a sex game taken to the extreme.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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