Amanda Knox has posted a picture of herself in high spirits as she plans for her wedding.

The social media post came hours after it emerged the dad of the woman she was wrongly accused of murdering has died in a suspected hit and run.

Knox, 32, shared a snap of her leaping off a tower of bricks in sunny Los Angeles last night alongside the caption “buzzlightyear-ing this b***h! Falling with style”.

She posted the photo around the same time it emerged the dad of murdered student Meredith Kercher died last weekend after being hit by a car in Croydon, south London.

John Kercher, 77, was found with a broken arm and leg after the accident on January 13 and was rushed to hospital where he sadly, a month after the incident, died of his injuries on Saturday.

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  Murdered student Meredith Kercher's dad dies after 'hit-and-run'

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A neighbour, who asked not to be named, said: "He was across the road in the shop. He came out. It was quite misty that day.

"All of a sudden people came out of the shop and he was on the floor."

Detective Sergeant Steve Andrews, of the Met’s South Area Command Unit, said: “We are currently treating the death of this man as unexplained and our thoughts are with his family at this very sad time.

“Despite thorough enquiries made so far, including speaking to witnesses and examining potential CCTV opportunities, we’ve not as yet been able to establish how the man came to sustain his injuries which included a broken arm and broken leg.

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“We are keeping an open mind as to the circumstances of his death, including whether he may have been involved in a collision.

“Please make the call to us, or anonymously via Crimestoppers if you can help us determine what happened.”

Knox and then-boyfriend Raffaelle Sollecito had previously been convicted of the murder of Ms Kercher in 2009, two years after the British student's body was found in a home she shared with Knox.

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Knox was studying abroad in Perugia, Italy, when she was accused of helping Sollecito kill roommate Meredith, 21, in a supposed sex game gone wrong in 2007.

But the murder conviction was then overturned in 2011, although the court did uphold Knox's slander conviction for wrongly accusing Congolese-born bar owner Diya Lumumba in the murder.

The court reduced the slander sentence to three years, for which Knox received credit for time served.

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Knox had spent nearly four years in jail after being convicted, and had been sentenced to 26 years following her initial trial.

Local drifter Rudy Guede was later convicted of Ms Kercher’s murder and is serving a 16-year sentence, reduced from 30 years on appeal in 2009.

An autopsy also found Ms Kercher's body was covered in bruises and injuries related to sexual assault, including 50 stab wounds.

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