Amanda Knox's murder conviction overturned on appeal but has to pay €20K in defamation damages to her former Congolese boss Diya Patrick Lumumba

Diya Patrick Lumumba

Owner of Le Chic, the bar where Amanda Knox worked in Perugia

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Though her murder conviction has been overturned, Amanda Knox has still to pay €20K in defamation damages for falsely implicating her then Congolese boss, Diya Patrick Lumumba. (Details of the sordid affair appeared on this blog here.)

Last month, Time magazine published a Who’s Who of characters in the murder case of Meredith Kercher.   Patrick Lumumba Diya’s role is summed up as follows:

“Diya "Patrick" Lumumba

Knox worked part-time at Le Chic, a pub that Lumumba owned in Perugia. Police arrested him and held him for two weeks after Knox wrongly implicated him in the murder. She claims that authorities misinterpreted a text message he sent her on the day of the murder that said “See you later.” Congolese-born Lumumba sued Knox the following year and won 40,000 euros in damages. “His bar has shut and he has a wife and child to support,” his lawyer said ahead of that lawsuit. “His life changed dramatically after he was wrongly named by Amanda as the killer.”