Amanda Knox guilty verdict: latest I couldn't help myself. I needed to hear it for myself and I couldn't believe what I was hearing I'm going through waves of emotion in response to it. My first reaction was no, this is wrong and I'm going to do everything I can to prove that it is. I felt very determined and my family felt very determined. It was only when I was on my way here that I got my first cry. He reminded me that people still believe in me and that this is an experience that I have to testify to. Really horrible things can happen and you have to stand up for yourself and believe that it's going to be ok. This has really hit me like a train. I did not expect this to happen, I really expected so much more from the Italian justice system. 12.47 Nick Squires reports: There had long been speculation that Sollecito might try to flee the country before the sentence. Last year he spent a lot of time in the Dominican Republic in the Caribbean, where he said he was hosted by a "generous friend." He also reportedly tried to move to Switzerland and set up a business there but had to leave after Swiss authorities realised that he was still the subject of an Italian judicial inquiry. 12.38 Amanda Knox in her ABC interview says: I'm going to fight this until the very end and it's not right and it's not fair and I'm going to do everything I can. When asked about Kercher's family, she says: I really understand that this is incredibly difficult that they have also been on this never ending thing and that when the case has been messed up so much, a verdict is no longer consolation for them. Just the very fact that they don't know what happened is horrible. The thing that people really when they've been victimised want is just simple acknowledgement. And they deserve respect and the consolation of some kind of acknowledgement and that's being lost. I really wish them the best. On Sollecito, she says: My inintial thought after the verdict was 'oh my god Raffaele'... He is vulnerable and I don't know what I would do if they imprisoned him. It's maddening. I just really hope that people look beyond me in this case and look to what has happened. Really look at the people, really look at the sittuaion, really look at the systems, really look at the aspects of these systems that allow for these things to happen so that it's comprehensible. I understand that this is really difficult and I can only testify to what happened to me and hope that people believe but i think the answers are out there and i can only really, really ask that people try to look for those. An undated handout picture made available by the Hotel Carnia shows an exterior view of Hotel Carnia near the Austrian and Slovenian border in Venzone, Italy 12.30 Nick Squires reports: There is intense speculation here that Sollecito and his girlfriend actually crossed the border last night, into Austria. They then waited for the verdict to be handed down - it came at 9.30pm local time. Sollecito was reportedly anxious to see whether the court would order that he be arrested and put in jail, or placed under house arrest. When the court instead decreed only that his passport should be confiscated, he crossed back over the border in a Mini Cooper and spent the night in a hotel in the mountain village of Venzone, near the city of Udine. 12.20 Amanda Knox has arrived at ABC's Good Morning America for her interview: Amanda Knox arrives at the set of ABC's "Good Morning America" to be interviewed in New York 12.05 A police official in Udine, where Sollecito is currently being held by police after travelling to the area near the border with Austria and Slovenia late last night after his guilty verdict, has reportedly said: He said he went on a "tourist trip" to Austria on Thursday afternoon. I do not believe him. My opinion is that he left Italian territory while waiting for the sentence and when he learnt that the court did not order his immediate detention, he came back. 11.50 More from Nick Squires - on Sollecito's current girlfriend: Sollecito was allegedly found by police in a hotel with his new girlfriend, a part-time model called Greta Menegaldo. The 23-year-old is a student in the town of Treviso in the Veneto region - just to the south of the Friuli-Venezia-Giulia region where the couple were stopped by police. Sollecito revealed on Facebook recently that he had started a relationship with the young woman. Her parents live in South America, according to reports in the Italian press. Ms Menegaldo reportedly met Sollecito at the University of Verona, where he has been studying software engineering. Since then they have become "inseparable," spending time in Sollecito's apartment in Verona. In a Facebook post recently, he wrote that he had "given my heart" to the part-time model. The couple recently went on holiday to South American, the Italian press reported. 11.28 Nick Squires reports from Florence: During the press conference Lyle Kercher reiterated that he would expect the Italian government to request the extradition of Knox if the conviction is decreed to be final and definitive by the Supreme Court. "I am sure the American government tries to extradite a lot of convicted criminals from other countries, so they would set a precedent if they don't uphold their own laws," he said. Amanda Knox 11.19 Lyle Kercher, Meredith's brother, said he and his family continue to believe that Meredith was murdered by Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito: The suggestion is that there is sufficient evidence of their involvement, based on the conclusions that the Italian police came to. One of the crucial things is that the injuries sustained by Meredith suggest that there was more than one person involved. I imagine the Italian government would extradite her. If the US chose not to assist Italy then I think they could have problems in their extradition dealings with other countries. It would set a precedent for other extradition cases. The fact that this has gone on for six years and won't be over until the Spring of 2015 is very hard. Losing someone in horrific circumstances is horrendous, but then the fact that it has been drawn out for six years makes it incredibly difficult for us. But we knew all along that there would be appeals and counter-appeals. It's not unusual in a case of this kind in Italy. 11.10 More from Stephanie Kercher, Meredith's sister, who said her parents, John and Arline, would have liked to travel to Florence but were in poor health: I think we are still on a journey towards the truth and it may be that we will never really know what happened that night. That's very hard to deal with. But the guilty verdicts have been upheld and we hope that come the end of the trial we will be nearer to the truth. Meredith is still very much part of our lives and the whole family would have liked to be here, but our parents are older and not in the best of health. Physically and mentally it puts a great strain on them. I think for us as a family the guilty verdict is just the next step in a long process that will hopefully end with a definitive conclusion. We now have to wait 90 days for the court to release its reasoning. 11.06 Andrea Vogt tweets: 10.42 The Udine police chief said police were tipped off to Sollecito's presence in the hotel and came immediately. In Italy, adults checking into hotels must hand over ID, which the hotels are then required to communicate to local police. Greta Menegaldo, Sollecito's current girlfriend, who was with him when he was picked up by police 10.33 The Udine police chief said that since the court didn't order Sollecito be detained, he will be freed as soon as the paperwork is completed. He said Sollecito was calm and came willingly to the station, with his girlfriend driving behind. Asked if police thought he might have fled the country, Belmonte said: We don't know his intentions 10.05 Sollecito was picked up by police at around 1am at a hotel in Venzone, which is around 25 miles from the border with Austria and Slovenia. He was staying in the hotel with his current girlfriend. The cabinet chief of the Udine police station, Giovanni Belmonte, said police took him to the Udine police station, took his passport and put a stamp in his Italian identity papers showing that he cannot leave the country. He will be freed later, Belmonte said. 10.03 Nick Squires at the Kercher family press conference reports: Lyle Kercher says "nothing will ever bring back Meredith." The best that the family can hope for is an eventual conclusion to the complicated and six-year-long legal process, which they have been told by their lawyers will not come until Spring 2015, after the case has been referred once again to the Supreme Court. "At this stage the decision is not finalised," Mr Kercher told the press conference. He diplomatically refused to criticise the Italian justice system. A lot of people are quick to pass judgment on the Italian system when they don't know much about it. We knew from the start there would be appeals and counter-appeals. Lyle and Stephanie Kercher 09.47 Stephanie Kercher, Meredith's sister, tells at a packed press conference in a hotel in Florence: We might never know the truth 09.45 Lyle Kercher, Meredith's brother, says Knox should be extradited from the US to Italy if the guilty verdict is confirmed by the Supreme Court in Rome. Venzone 09.42 Sollecito was reportedly picked up by police in a village called Venzone. 09.38 More from Nick Squires on Sollecito reportly being picked up by police near the Italian border with Austria and Slovenia: Sollecito has been taken to the main police station in the city of Udine, reports here say. Udine is right up in the north east of Italy, in a corner of the country that adjoins Austria and Slovenia. His passport has been taken away from him. Raffaele Sollecito leaves the court in Florence, Italy, yesterday 09.17 Reports that Sollecito has been picked up near the border with both Austria and Slovenia. Nick Squires reports: Raffaele Sollecito has reportedly been picked up by police very close to the Italian border with Austria and Slovenia. The former boyfriend of Amanda Knox was stopped by Florence flying squad officers in a village between the north-eastern city of Udine and the town of Tarvisio. It is not known if he was intending to cross the border into Austria or Slovenia. Police officers from Udine were also involved in apprehending Sollecito, 29, according to reports by Ansa, the Italian news agency. The judge in the retrial last night ordered that Sollecito's passport and identity card should be confiscated immediately following the verdict. 09.04 Here is the footage of Amanda Knox being convicted: 09.02 Nick Squires reports from Florence: While Amanda Knox plans her next move at home in Seattle, no one quite knows where Raffaele Sollecito is. There are various conflicting reports this morning, saying that he is in a hotel somewhere outside Florence, or that he is in Rome, or that he has driven all the way back to his home town of Bari, in the southern region of Puglia. He certainly won't be leaving Italy for a while - the judge in the retrial ordered last night that his passport and other travel documents be confiscated. A woman believed to be Amanda Knox is hidden under a jacket while being escorted from her mother's home to a car last night Meanwhile Lyle and Stephanie Kercher, the brother and sister of Meredith, are due to give a press conference in Florence at 10.15am local time, 9.15am UK time. They said last night the reinstated guilty verdicts were not a reason to "celebrate" and that they know the whole process is going to drag on for at least another year because defence lawyers plan to appeal to the Supreme Court in Rome. 09.01 In an interview with Guardian before the verdicts, Knox said she was a "marked person": I am a marked person, and no one who is unmarked is going to understand that. I don't even know what my place is any more, what is my role in society. Who am I after this, after everyone has branded me, who am I? 09.00 (10.00 CET Italy, 01.00 PST Seattle) Good morning and welcome to our live coverage of the reaction to the Amanda Knox guilty verdict.