Amanda Knox’s ex-boyfriend, who was also accused of the murder of Meredith Kercher, has landed a job on an Italian TV show as a murder expert.
Rafaelle Sollecito, who spent four years behind bars, is now a criminologist on “Il giallo della settimana,” or “The Mystery of the Week.”
Sollecito and Knox were convicted of killing British student Meredith Kercher in 2007.
The pair were acquitted in 2011.
On Saturday night’s show, Sollecito discussed the 2010 murder of 15-year-old Sarah Scazzi in Puglia.
Scazzi’s uncle was jailed after confessing, on live television, to hiding the teenager’s body.
Sollecito told The Times: “I have been a victim of a miscarriage of justice, I know the faults of the justice system, what happens in jail and what happens when the media twists the truth.
“The usual experts on these shows have seen things through a window — I have lived them.”
Paolo Liguori, head of TV channel Tgcom24, said: “Sollecito knows the justice system better than anyone else.”
Kercher was murdered in Perugia in 2007 while she was on exchange from the University of Leeds.
Police found her dead on her bedroom floor with her throat slit.
She initially was thought to have been the victim of a sex attack.
In December 2009, Knox was sentenced to 26 years behind bars for the murder. Sollecito was sentenced to 25 years.
Sollecito has criticized the role of the media in sensationalizing the case and portraying him and Knox as crazed killers.
He said: “That is partly the fault of the media. By going on TV, I can help give correct opinions about other cases.”
He understood that some people wouldn’t watch the show because they still believed him to be guilty.
He said: “Those people are ignorant of the true details of my case, so I feel I can ignore their opinions.”