Amanda Knox, the American woman wrongfully convicted of and jailed for the 2007 murder of British student Meredith Kercher in Italy, has been slapped with a jail sentence for a slander offence relating to the case. Knox, who was in court for the verdict, had been sentenced to three years for wrongly accusing Congolese bar owner Patrick Lumumba of killing Kercher. But the sentence will have no practical impact as it is covered by the time Knox spent in jail before her conviction for the killing of British student Meredith Kercher in Perugia was annulled in 2015. Though regardless of the outcome…