Convicted murderer Amanda Knox working as reporter for local newspaper in US

AMANDA Knox has been hired as a freelance reporter for a local newspaper in America, despite her murder conviction.

Amanda Knox is now working at a local newspaper in the USGETTY

Amanda Knox is now working at a local newspaper in the US

Knox, who was found guilty of killing British student Meredith Kercher, has written several stories on the website of the West Seattle Herald.

Her work includes a theatre review of a high school production of Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead.

Web Editor Patrick Robinson told The Daily Beast that the paper wanted to give Knox the chance to be a "human being".

He said: “It doesn’t matter what people say or think – the truth is that she’s a West Seattle resident, she grew up here. 

“Why not give her the opportunity to be an actual human being versus a celebrity?”

Mr Robinson described Knox as "a very bright, very capable, highly qualified writer".

British student Meredith Kercher was killed in 2007GETTY

British student Meredith Kercher was killed in 2007

Why not give her the opportunity to be an actual human being versus a celebrity?

Patrick Robinson, web editor of West Seattle Herald

The 27-year-old initially wrote under a pseudonym but soon changed to her real name.

Knox and her former boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito were found guilty in 2009 of the murder of British student Meredith Kercher in Perugia, Italy.

Ms Kercher, 21, was found dead in a pool of blood in the apartment she shared with Knox in 2007.

Although Knox and Sollecito were acquitted in 2009, the guilty verdicts were reinstated last year.

Knox returned to the US after the acquittal and refused to return to Italy.

She was tried in absentia and sentenced to 28 years in prison, although she said she has no intention of ever returning and maintains her innocence. 

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