Amanda Knox, exchange student in Italy murder case, now engaged to musician boyfriend

Amanda Knox, the American whose trial and conviction for the murder of a young British student in Italy made her a household name, is getting married, a US newspaper reported.

She recently became engaged to Colin Sutherland, a 27-year-old musician she has known since high school, the Seattle Times said.

Knox, who graduated from the University of Washington in Seattle and is now working at a library, confirmed the news without providing details, the report said.

Knox, 27, was at the centre of a long and still unresolved legal drama in Italy that cast her as a participant in the brutal 2007 murder of a fellow student, 21-year-old Meredith Kercher.

Kercher’s body was found with 47 stab wounds in the apartment she shared with Knox in the town of Perugia. An autopsy showed Kercher had been raped.

READ MORE: SCMP's coverage of the Italy murder trial

Knox and her former Italian fiancé Raffaele Sollecito were convicted of the murder in 2009, and spent four years in prison after being sentenced to 26 and 25 years respectively.