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Amanda Knox, right, is escorted into court on the final day of the murder trial yesterday in Perugia. (GETTY IMAGES)
An Italian court sentenced American student Amanda Knox to 26 years in prison and jailed her ex-boyfriend for 25 years after they were found guilty of murdering Knox's British roommate during a drunken sex game.
Lawyers for Knox, 22 and Raffaele Sollecito, 25, said they would appeal the sentences and Knox's family denounced the verdict as a "failure of the Italian judicial system".
Knox burst into tears and hugged her lawyer as a judge read the verdict to a court packed with media, many from the US and Britain. An impassive Sollecito turned and looked at his family as his stepmother shouted: "Be strong, Raffaele!"
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