Amanda Knox has been bombarded with hate mail since being released from prison after her conviction for murdering Meredith Kercher was overturned on appeal.
Since Knox was released from an Italian prison, where she served four years for Kercher’s brutal murder, she and her Seattle based family have received "disgusting" letters containing "things you would not want to have said about your daughter," her father Curt told The Sun.
“There have also been phone calls,” the company finance director added.
"These people are too chicken to say these things to your face."
Knox, 50, would not disclose the origins of the hate mail or whether his daughter had read them.
Since returning to America, Knox has been inundated with million pound offers to sell her story including book and movie deals but her father said the frenzied media attention had created a "different type of prison" for his daughter.
Porn company Vivid Entertainment even offered her a job as a spokeswoman.
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Kercher’s mother Arline meanwhile has backed Italian prosecutors move to appeal against Knox's conviction for murder being overturned.
Knox and ex boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito were cleared of killing 21 year old British student Meredith Kercher.
Kercher was found dead with her throat cut in the Perugia house she shared with Knox in 2007.
Rudy Guede, also convicted of the murder in a separate trial, remains in jail.
