for a horrific crime she didn t commit. her roommate was brute ale murdered in an apartment they shared in perugia. tonight amanda and her boyfriend rafael sollecito are free. she s preparing to fly home to the united states to rebuild her shattered life. for the latest, let s go to matthew chance in perugia. you ve been out there the whole time. you were in court today. dramatic scenes. were you expecting that? you ve been following this very closely for years. reporter: yeah, well, i wasn t quite expecting the level of emotion that i witnessed in the court today. it really was tense. you had both the knox family and the kercher family sitting in the same course. the kerchers very much wanted for amanda knox to stay in prison. they wanted the conviction to be upheld. obviously, the knoxes wanted the opposite. when it went the knoxes way, there were whoops and chants. and powerful tension. amanda was just so overcome with emotion. she could barely walk she was crying so
for a horrific crime she didn t commit. her roommate was brute ale murdered in an apartment they shared in perugia. tonight amanda and her boyfriend rafael sollecito are free. she s preparing to fly home to the united states to rebuild her shattered life. for the latest, let s go to matthew chance in perugia. you ve been out there the whole time. you were in court today. dramatic scenes. were you expecting that? you ve been following this very closely for years. reporter: yeah, well, i wasn t quite expecting the level of emotion that i witnessed in the court today. it really was tense. you had both the knox family and the kercher family sitting in the same course. the kerchers very much wanted for amanda knox to stay in prison. they wanted the conviction to be upheld. obviously, the knoxes wanted the opposite. when it went the knoxes way, there were whoops and chants. and powerful tension. amanda was just so overcome with emotion. she could barely walk she was crying so mu
police through a private entrance. her murder conviction overturned yesterday. knox sobbing uncontrollably when this verdict was read. so emotional, she had to be helped from the courtroom. her friends say the first thing she wants to do when she returns home to seattle is lie down on a green field. let s get the latest from becky anderson live in perugia, italy this morning. do we have a timetable for knox departure, becky? reporter: yes. we believe she s gone. it s now mid-day local town, and we believe she left rome, about two hours from here, at 11:00. the family went to london on a regular flight. a possibility knox left on a private jet. they re going to london, we believe. there s a flight about 3:00 local time london out of heathrow to seattle, and so she ll be there with, what, eight, nine hours after she leaves london. this is the front page of the local paper here. innocent. they didn t do it. the court of appeals absolves amanda knox and raffaele sollecito. a
american student amanda knox walked free from an italian prison after serving four years for a horrific crime she didn t commit. her roommate was brute ale murdered in an apartment they shared in perugia. tonight amanda and her boyfriend rafael sollecito are free. she s preparing to fly home to the united states to rebuild her shattered life. for the latest, let s go to matthew chance in perugia. you ve been out there the whole time. you were in court today. dramatic scenes. were you expecting that? you ve been following this very closely for years. reporter: yeah, well, i wasn t quite expecting the level of emotion that i witnessed in the court today. it really was tense. you had both the knox family and the kercher family sitting in the same course. the kerchers very much wanted for amanda knox to stay in prison. they wanted the conviction to be upheld. obviously, the knoxes wanted the opposite. when it went the knoxes way, there were whoops and chants. and powerful tens