Buy my new book, Amanda Knox tells Meredith Kercher’s grieving family after she is slammed for ‘profiting’ from murder

AMANDA Knox has urged Meredith Kercher's grieving family to read her new book, after the release was slammed for being "inappropriate and disrespectful".

The 37-year-old hit back at the claims she is "profiting" from murder in an interview with Good Morning Britain.

Knox was arrested in 2007 in connection with the murder of British student, Meredith Kercher, who was found stabbed to death at the girls' apartment in Italy.

Knox spent four years behind bars for the 21-year-old's murder, before being cleared of the crime by Italy's highest court in 2015.

Her new memoir, Free, is all about her treatment while in jail.

In the book, she claims to have been groped, and asked for sex by prison guards.

When asked about the impact the book may have on her former flatmate's family, Knox urged them to read it.

She said: "I hope that they read my book because I really honour Meredith's memory in the book but I also believe that honouring her past and story does not mean erasing my own.

"I am a person who is continuing to pursue justice in this case but a bigger issue that I try and speak to and free is how do we all overcome the traumas that are in our lives, regardless of whether or not we get what we deserve."

But Kercher's family lawyer, Francesco Maresca, has slammed the new release as "inappropriate and disrespectful".

Knox clapped back at the lawyer live on air as she told Good Morning Britain that he can "very politely keep his opinions to himself".

Knox's new book follows the release of her first memoir, Waiting to Be Heard, back in 2013.

While on air Knox was asked whether she thought her second memoir could be seen as was capitalising on the tragic events.

Knox said: "Well, I would say that my first book was a very different one to this book.

"I'm very proud of Waiting To Be Heard. It was written at a time when I felt like so many people were authoring my experience and saying what it was and I felt like I needed to set the record straight.

"It was written at a time when I was deeply immersed in the legal saga and in proving my innocence.

"Today, I look at this as an opportunity to share a story of, not erasing the past but really learning from the past so that we can live better lives, personally and as a society."

The lawyer, Maresca, has said it is evident that Knox is using the case as a "source of income" and an opportunity to "maintain her name in the media."

Knox shut down these claims, branding him a "hypocrite".

She said: "Well, I would say that he's a hypocrite, honestly, as someone who himself has profited not just off the work that he has done on the case but in writing his own book, I think that Mr Maresca can very politely keep his opinions to himself.

"He has always been very much a man who has never, ever considered my humanity and experience and is subject to something that I like to call single victim fallacy.

"The idea that in a tragic event, there can only be one victim, and that is simply not true so I think, I don't really care what Mr Maresca thinks, to be frank."

This comes after Knox lost her appeal against a slander charge for wrongly accusing her former boss Patrick Lumumba of murdering Kercher back in January.

The decision has left Knox with a permanent criminal record in Italy.

In a tearful YouTube video titled Slander Verdict Reaction, Knox opened up about the ruling: “I’m a little bit astonished because I had higher hopes of the court in Rome.

"But there’s nothing else I can do… It’s really disappointing because there’s nothing else I can do.

"That means I just have a criminal record forever for something I didn’t do.”