A supporter of Amanda Knox has been questioned by police after shouting: "You are evil," at one of the main prosecutors in the American student's appeal case.
Witnesses said Mrs Moore marched over to Mr Mignini and shouted: "You are evil, you have no conscience." Others said she told him: "You have no heart."
A shocked Mr Mignini asked police to identify her after the outburst. She was asked to show her US passport and provide officers with her details. She was then taken away but was not arrested.
A file on the case will now be sent to prosecutors who will decide if there is enough evidence to proceed to a full charge of offending an official of the court, which carries a maximum sentence of three years in jail.
It happened yesterday, the same day as a lawyer for bar owner Patrick Lumumba, wrongly identified by Knox as the killer, had described her as a "diabolical, demonic, Satanic, she Devil".
Today Mrs Moore, one of the most vociferous pro-Knox campaigners, was not in court as the case resumed with Sollecito's lawyers starting their summing up. However, her husband Steve, a former FBI agent said: "She didn't mean to show any disrespect to the court."
He said the outburst had come about because she was angry over pictures of Miss Kercher's mutilated body during an earlier hearing. "We have a daughter the same age and someone tried to strangle my wife when she was 20, so it was a reaction to all that, she was just shocked," he said.
"She thought it was Mignini who had shown the photographs - she just got a bit emotional."
Knox and Italian Sollecito were sentenced to 26 years and 25 years respectively in 2009 after Miss Kercher, 21, from Coulsdon, was found with her throat cut at the house she shared with Knox in Perugia.
A third defendant, Rudy Guede, an immigrant from the Ivory Coast, is serving 16 years for murder and sexual violence.
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