Amanda Knox Case Latest News: Engaged to Friend Colin Sutherland
Amanda Knox, the 27-year-old American woman known for the widely publicized case involving the murder of British exchange student Meridith Kercher in 2007, is engaged to childhood friend and musician Colin Sutherland.
Knox's father told ABC News that the couple got engaged on Feb. 3.
Amanda Knox and Colin Sutherland are said to have known each other since her middle school days in Washington State. Sutherland, also 27, has a band based in New York City called The Johnny Pumps, which classifies its kind of music as a mix of rock, "impure metal, and it's cut with a punk edge that will make you want to dance."
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He is also part of a group called The Haunted Life who wants to tour around the country "playing and telling ghost stories."
The couple was last seen together in New York City in September 2014, when Knox was living in the city for a few months. Knox is back in Seattle, but it is unclear in reports whether Sutherland has moved back to the state as well.
News of the engagement comes as Knox's legal battle is about to come to another head: on March 25, Italy's highest court will conduct a hearing for an appeal, after Knox and her ex-boyfriend Rafael Sollecito were again convicted of murder in January of 2014. Knox and Sollecito were first convicted of murder in 2009 and Knox was sentenced to 26 years in prison. She had already served four years of her sentence when their case was put on appeal and was overturned in October 2011, allowing her to go back to the U.S.
According to a Reuters report, Knox said she will not be attending the hearing for the appeal in Italy, because of the possibility that she will be thrown back in prison again if the court finds her guilty.
"I'm going to fight this to the very end. It's not right and it's not fair," she said during an interview on ABC News' "Good Morning America," a day after the 2014 conviction.
