Diya "Patrick" Lumumba was also present in the court.
Knox, Sollecito, and Diya Lumumba, a Congolese bar owner, have been arrested on suspicion of sexually assaulting and then killing Kercher, a 21-year-old exchange student from Coulsdon, Surrey.
Staring at the sign of the Diya Design Studio from atop the Santacruz West skywalk, Pavan balls his fists.
Related: Amanda Knox murder conviction annulled - live coverage 6 November 2007: Knox is arrested with then-boyfriend Sollecito and Diya "Patrick Lumumbaa, the Congolese owner of pub where Knox occasionally worked.
THE conspirators, led by the deputy head of state, Major-General Oladipo Diya, were going to infiltrate the presidential palace by way of a Canadian-built motor-home that they were presenting to General Sani Abacha, the head of state.
But Diya "Patrick Lumumbaa, the Perugia bar owner Ms Knox falsely accused of the killing, turned up at the court to publicly denounce the 26-year-old American.
The appeals court that overturned the convictions of Ms. Knox and Mr. Sollecito upheld Ms. Knox's conviction on a charge of defamation for accusing the bar owner she had worked for, Diya Lumumba, of committing the murder — leading him to be jailed and then released.
The appeals court upheld Ms. Knox's conviction on a charge of slander for accusing a bar owner, Diya Lumumba, who goes by the name Patrick, of committing the murder.
The judges confirmed Knox's conviction for slandering her former employer, Diya "Patrick Lumumbaa, whom she initially accused of the murder, and increased her sentence from one to three years.
They therefore point to the crime for which Knox's conviction still stands – her naming of Diya "Patrick Lumumbaa, the man who owned the bar where she worked, as a suspect during her initial police interrogation.
6 November: police arrest Kercher's American flatmate, Amanda Knox, then 20; Knox's boyfriend, Italian student Raffaele Sollecito, 23; and Congolese Diya "Patrick Lumumbaa, 38, who runs a local bar.
