Amanda Knox will pen a love advice column in a newspaper  – a decade after being accused of murdering her British roommate.

Knox, now 32, was twice convicted and twice acquitted for the murder of 21-year-old Meredith Kercher, whom she lived with in the Italian town of Perugia.

Throughout the long running high-profile case Knox has declared her innocence and has since returned to America.

Now, almost a decade after Meredith's death, Knox is planning to pen an advice column in local news outlet Westside Seattle about 'life, love, suffering, and meaning.'

The column is set to run weekly print and online paper in Seattle owned by her new husband Christopher Robinson's family.

Knox is already listed as a contributing writer and photographer for the publication.

According to US reports the column was announced in an editor's note published on Monday – and the publication faced swift backlash.

The article on the Westside Seattle site entitled 'introducing new feature column Ask Amanda' is now blank, and a Facebook post announcing her new role appears to have been taken down.

Reports say the original post on Westside Seattle's Facebook page said: “Amanda Knox spent four years in an Italian prison for a murder she didn’t commit and it’s given her a unique perspective on life.

"Now fully exonerated, this bestselling author and advocate for criminal justice reform offers her insights, such as they are, to reader questions about life, love, suffering, and meaning.”

According to the Seattle Times, one Facebook commentor wrote in response: "Good lord you're kidding… right"?"

Patrick Robinson, Westside Seattle’s director of new media, reportedly wrote back:

“For those that have doubts or still, after all that has transpired, question her innocence all I can say is if you had met her, spoken with her, gotten to know her as I have you would have nothing but admiration for her… It’s as if she was meant to go through all this to become the remarkable, and brilliant, capable and deeply sincere woman she is.”

Knox and husband Christopher drew controversy when they attempted to crowdfund their wedding.

It emerged the couple had married nine months before they launched an appeal for the public help them raise £8,000 toward paying for the costs of their nuptials, saying they had spent most of their wedding fund on a trip to Italy.

Knox had returned to the country for the first time this June at the invitation of the Italy Innocence Project and spoke at its wrongful convictions event.

She has already been writing for her husband's publication, which Seattle-native Knox over the years. It most recently covered her engagement to Robinson.

The Guardian reports Robinson clarified she is not being paid by the newspaper, adding that the publication has not responded to requests for comment or revealed when the column would launch.

Knox became a controversial public figure amid intense international interest in the Kercher case.

She had been studying abroad in Perugia when she was accused of helping then-boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito kill roommate Meredith, 21, in what prosecutors alleged was a sex game gone wrong in 2007.

The pair were convicted, acquitted on appeal, then convicted and acquitted again.

Knox was sentenced to 26 years in jail but following their acquittal she and Sollecito were released after serving four years in prison.

Rudy Guede was found guilty of the sexual assault and murder of Kercher. He is serving a 16-year sentence.

Knox, who has repeatedly declared her innocence, has never strayed far from the spotlight since the case first hit the headlines.

She has participated in a 2016 Netflix documentary about the case, and has also published a memoir.

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