Amanda Knox broke down in tears as she appeared at a criminal justice festival in Italy this morning.
The US citizen, 31, returned to Italy for the first time this week since she was cleared of the murder of British student Meredith Kercher at their rented house in Perugia in 2007.
Despite being cleared of Meredith's murder by an Italian supreme court back in 2015, Knox told a conference in Modena on Saturday she 'still fears more charges'.
'I'm afraid today, now, I'm afraid of being harassed, mocked, stuck and I'm afraid that new accusations will be addressed to me just because I come here to say my version of the facts. But above all, I fear I will lack the courage,' she told the crowd.
Amanda Knox breaks down in tears as she speaks at a Criminal Justice Festival at the University of Modena, Italy on Saturday
Knox, a former American exchange student who became the focus of a sensational murder case, arrived in Italy Thursday for the first time since an appeals court acquitted her in 2011
'I know that despite my acquittal issued by the Court of Cassation, I remain a controversial figure in the presence of public opinion, above all and especially here in Italy'.
'A lot of people think I'm crazy to come here. I was told that I was not safe, that I will be attacked in the streets, that I will be falsely accused and sent back to prison and that even if I return to Seattle, it will have been all in vain, it will not have been useful to anything'.
Knox, who fought a bitter legal battle against the Italian justice system, broke down in tears as she told the crowd: 'It is not enough to get it right eventually. We need to get it right sooner, to do more often than we do.'
'On the world stage I wasn't a defendant innocent until proved guilty, the verdict fell upon me like a crushing weight.'
Knox spent four
