Revealed: Jailed trader who rigged interest rates in global financial crash swapped emails with Foxy Knoxy

A former bank trader jailed for rigging interest rates in the global financial crisis found an unlikely confidante in Amanda Knox, the Mail on Sunday can reveal.

Tom Hayes, who served five years of a 14-year prison sentence, struck up an email friendship with Knox, found guilty in 2007 of killing her British flatmate, Meredith Kercher, in Perugia, Italy.

He made contact with Knox – nicknamed Foxy Knoxy – after his mother put a copy of Knox's memoir, Waiting To Be Heard, in a bag she had packed for her son to take into prison.

Knox, 36, was eventually cleared of Meredith's killing in 2015.

Hayes said he was 'very affected' by her story and 'felt moved to write to her' to tell her how much her book had meant to him.

He emailed her via her website and she replied. They then began to exchange emails.

Hayes was sentenced to 14 years in 2015 for manipulating interest rates. He is still battling to prove his innocence.

In their emails, he and Knox shared their experiences of being in prison and in the public glare. 

'There are some things people can only understand if they have been through it themselves,' he said.