Child murderer tells court he has information to clear Amanda Knox of British student killing

A CONVICTED child murderer told a court yesterday he had information clearing Amanda Knox of the killing of British student Meredith Kercher.

Giving evidence at the American student's appeal hearing in the Italian town of Perugia, Mario Alessi recounted a jailhouse confession made to him by Rudy Guede, who was also convicted of killing the 21-year-old.

The Ivory Coast national confided in him that Knox and her Italian ex-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito were innocent, he said. Knox, 23, from Seattle (pictured above), is appealing against her conviction and 26-year prison sentence for the murder of her University of Leeds student housemate in November 2007.