Amanda Knox will immediately "escape" from Italian justice and flee abroad if she is acquitted of killing Meredith Kercher, prosecution lawyers warned on Friday, as they called for her murder conviction to be upheld.
Plea for freedom: Amanda Knox is appealing her murder conviction
"We know what will happen if you absolve. She will escape overseas and we won't be able to do anything about it," Giuliano Mignini, the chief prosecutor, told the jury in the court in Perugia where Knox is appealing her 26-year jail sentence.
If the American is acquitted of the crime, she is expected to be flown home with her family to the US almost immediately, with speculation that television networks are lining up to pay large sums for her story.
Under the Italian judicial system, prosecutors would have the right to appeal against the acquittal in the Supreme Court in Rome.
But Mr Mignini said Knox would by then be long gone from Italy, rendering the final phase in the four-year legal saga redundant. He called for her sentence to be increased to life.
"This is the second of three stages of the judicial system in Italy; it is up to you to deliver justice," he said, as the jury prepares to hand down a judgment on Monday. ...read more
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