Amanda Knox has said she believes Meredith Kercher would have found humour in Knox’s new stand-up show, which addresses her experience of being wrongly convicted of Kercher’s murder. The comments are likely to provoke controversy because Kercher’s family and supporters have long objected to public projects that centre on Knox’s ordeal rather than the British student’s death.

Knox was convicted alongside Raffaele Sollecito in Italy in 2009 over Kercher’s 2007 murder in Perugia, but both were ultimately acquitted in 2015 after years of legal proceedings. Rudy Guede was separately convicted of Kercher’s murder. The article focuses on Knox’s effort to use comedy to discuss the case and her assertion about how Kercher might have responded.