SEATTLE — Amanda Knox has gone into hiding — and won’t appear in public again for weeks, her family said yesterday.
“You’re definitely not going to find her,” said her stepfather, Chris Mellas. “She’s not in Seattle, she’s not even in [the] county.”
Mellas said Knox — whose conviction for the 2007 murder of roommate Meredith Kercher in Italy was tossed Monday — had not spoken to her former lover and co-defendant, Raffaele Sollecito.
“They need to spend time with their families,” the stepfather said.
And despite speculation that the family would look to cash in by peddling her story, Mellas insisted no deals were in place.
“We have no plans,” he said.
Meanwhile, the Italian judge who handled the sensational case said yesterday his anti-American countrymen wanted to lock Amanda in the slammer for life just because she was a US citizen.
“Many wanted Amanda in prison because she was American,” Judge Claudio Pratillo Hellman, 68, told the Italian newspaper La Nazione. Post Wire Services