Deformations of dihedral representations

G. Burde proved (1990) that the representation space of two-bridge knot groups is one-dimensional. The same holds for all torus knot groups. The aim of this note is to prove the following:
Given a knot we denote by its twofold branched covering space. Assume that there is a prime number such that . Then there exist representations of the knot group onto the binary dihedral group and these representations are smooth points on a one-dimensional curve of representations into .