Amanda Knox, the former college student whose murder trial in Italy became an international cause célèbre, is planning to tie the knot.
The 27-year-old got engaged to Colin Sutherland, also 27, a musician who moved to Seattle from New York, the Seattle Times reported. No date has been set.
“Her engagement was disclosed by a source close to the family, and Knox confirmed it in an email, but declined to say anything else,” columnist Jonathan Martin wrote on Wednesday.
Knox was arrested in 2007 when her British roommate, Meredith Kercher, was discovered dead with her throat slit.
Knox and Raffaele Sollecito, her former boyfriend, were convicted of the crime in 2009. Prosecutors were accused of bungling the case. On appeal two years later, the two were cleared of the charges and Knox was able to return home.
In January 2014, an Italian court convicted her again and sentenced her to 28 years in prison.
She was recently hired as a freelance writer at the West Seattle Herald.
On March 25, Italy’s highest court will hear another appeal and decide if Italy may try to force Knox to return and face another trial, the Seattle Times reported.
“Her husband-to-be wrote her while she was in prison, and now he has signed up to be stalked by paparazzi, British tabloids and Internet trolls. It must be love,” Martin wrote in his column.
Sutherland does bass and vocals for Johnny Pumps – a Strokes-inspired indie rock band.
The engaged musician and his mates call themselves a “slag rock” band that formed in 2013 with their debut self-released album “That Escalated Quickly.”
The group has played a string of small shows in Manhattan and Brooklyn and doesn’t appear to have played outside New York in their brief history.
On the band’s website, Sutherland is referred to as being the member of the band who “likes flat soda.”
The others, referred to just by first names, include Fred, who “likes to take cat pictures,” Eliran, who “enjoy (sic) all outdoor activities” and Blake, who “likes to watch `Jeopardy’ by candlelight.”
The band bio also jokes that “one of us used to be a woman, but we won’t say who.”
A call by The Post to their “press contact” was met with a brief statement: “I have no comment, thank you.”