Amanda Knox claims show she is performing at festival honors murdered former flatmate

LONDON -- LONDON (AP) — Amanda Knox, the American student convicted and later acquitted of the gruesome murder and sexual assault of her British flatmate Meredith Kercher 19 years ago in Italy, has defended herself against charges from Kercher’s sister that a show she is performing at the Edinburgh Fringe festival in Scotland over the coming days trivializes violence against women and should be axed.Knox, now 39, said Thursday in a post on Instagram that her comedy show “honors Meredith Kercher’s memory and calls out the violence that was done to her and to me.”The show is called “Cartwheel,” a reference to a story that claimed Knox did cartwheels in the police station after her Meredith's death. It is debuting Friday evening and is due to run for 11 straight nights at the annual August mish-mash of standup, theater and musical offerings in the Scottish capital.The show is being marketed as a woman “approaching forty, juggling motherhood and finally getting around to being furious about the whole wrongful-imprisonment thing. Especially when half the world is telling her to get over it, while the other half still thinks she’s guilty.”Knox was a 20-year-old student in Perugia when Ke...