Why shouldn't Foxy Knoxy sell her story?

By Charlie Wolf for the Daily Mail
Updated: 01:35 GMT, 18 February 2012

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 Foxy's rich: The deal Amanda Knox has struck with publishing giant HarperCollins is reportedly worth $4m (£2.5m)

Amanda Knox, who was cleared on appeal of the murder of her British roommate, Meredith Kercher, is to write a book of her experience. The deal with publishing giant, HarperCollins is reportedly worth $4m (£2.5m).

She will use journals she kept during her imprisonment to talk about her 'harrowing experience' at the hands of the Italian police and later prison guards and fellow inmates.

Good for her, I hope the book is successful and makes her a packet.

We are at a point of extreme pettiness in the course of human history. Many who would otherwise be disposed in complaining about the bonuses of bankers they don't know or even pay will take time out to complain that the 24 year old Knox has 'no right' to write her book or profit from her experience.

Since it was an American who was alleged to have killed a Briton, I am sure there will be many here who take umbrage for essentially nationalistic reasons of jealousy. You don't have to buy the book.

I don't know what the relationship is between the Knox and Kercher families, if they have even been in contact. I am sure Meredith's parents do not want a reminder of that fateful day in Perugia almost five years ago. I feel sorry for them and the torment they must go through on a daily basis over a loved and lost daughter.

But let's not forget, Knox, who was found not guilty on appeal, has also suffered as has her family. Knox never struck me as the most savvy or smartest of teens. The video of her and boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito 'petting' each other just after the murder did her no favours; if half the rumours of her smoking pot or sexual adventures are true I would be severely let down if her father. But this is a nineteen-year-old kid, away from home, half-way around the world who ends up banged up in an Italian prison and fighting a murder trial in a foreign language.

Cashing in? Knox will use journals she kept during her imprisonment to talk about her 'harrowing experience' at the hands of the Italian justice system

But in the end she went from naive, happy-go-lucky American teen on a sex-fueled year long "Spring Break" to dealing with a slipshod Italian police and justice system; the brickbats thrown at her in the Italian and British Press (the whole 'Foxy Knoxy' thing was probably as disgusting to the Kercher family as it was to the Knoxes considering another young girl lay dead). In the end, she is seen in an Italian appeals court, on her feet, making an appeal in her own voice and in fluent Italian.

Many other teens would not have survived the first night in the cells.

No kid deserves to go through that no matter how young and stupid they may have acted. It was probably a helluva lesson in adulthood and to say the least an interesting story. Why shouldn't she profit from it if people want to read it.

Forgotten victim? Knox suffered too - she ended up half-way around the world banged up in an Italian prison and fighting a murder trial in a foreign language

You may argue this is nothing but a part of the celebrity culture in which we now live, where it takes nothing to become famous. The world has more than enough TV made, overnight non-celebrities famous for nothing but their gutter exploits, but getting unexpectedly banged up for four years in an Italian prison takes a little more than a couple of weeks in the Big Brother House or facing Lord Sugar in the boardroom.

Unlike the stars of non-reality 'reality television' we don't hear stories of Knox falling down flat on her face drunk after a night on the tiles. In fact, she has been quiet since returning to Seattle, Washington state; she's given no interviews and has let her lawyers do the talking.

Many of us face unexpected challenges in our lives. For Knox it was finding your roommate dead followed by four years in prison.

We may never know the full story of Kercher's murder and that is a shame, especially for her parents, family and friends. But as far as Knox is concerned, I find it hard to believe she could have murdered Meredith - and as far as what I or others think she has not been proven guilty, her case overturned; and in the Italian justice system that takes some doing.

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