Who killed the British student Meredith Kercher in Perugia? Amanda Knox and her ex-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito are again accused of murder. During the negotiation of the US-American stays away, the Italian told the court.
In the new trial of the murder of Briton Meredith Kercher defendant Raffaele Sollecito has maintained his innocence. “They handed me a cold and ruthless killer, I’m none of those things,” said the ex-boyfriend also accused the U.S. American Amanda Knox before the court in Florence. “I want to show how absurd these allegations,” he said. The 29-year-old asked the judge to correct “the big mistake” of the previous instances, “to give me the opportunity to have a life again.”
He was proud to be an honest man and proud of his family, who have never had problems with the law, Sollecito said in his emotional statement. At the end, he fought back tears. His life was completely changed by the death of Meredith Kercher. “Here in Italy, I’m always under surveillance,” he said. At the time of the murder he confessed shortly before his graduation and Knox had with his “first real love”.
Sollecito walked more than one hour before the start of negotiations, the court without comment. The Italians and the 26-year-old Knox have to answer again since the end of September for the murder of Kercher in court. The British student had been half-naked and with her throat cut in November 2007 in their shared apartment in the northern Italian Perugia.
Their former roommate Knox and Sollecito were sentenced to long prison terms in 2009 and later acquitted before Italy’s highest court overturned the verdict and ordered to reopen the case. Knox returned to her release in 2011, and had their home on several occasions that the process does not return to Italy.
Sollecito testified before an examiner who had examined the possible murder weapon. The track was discovered between the handle and blade of the kitchen knife a “substantial similarity” with the DNA of Amanda Knox, he said, according to news agency Ansa. Traces of Sollecito and Kercher were found. While the indictment keeps the kitchen knife from Sollecitos apartment for the murder weapon, the defense argues, Knox’ve used it for cooking.
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