The murder of Meredith Kercher: Amanda Knox to face trials

It was the fateful night of November 1, 2007 when the 21 year old Meredith Kercher was brutally murdered in her own bedroom. Kercher’s body was lying beneath a mattress in her room “soaked in blood.” Police have said Kercher’s throat was slit with a shard of glass or a pen-knife. Three suspects of the case Amanda Knox, Raffaele Sollecito (an Italian student and Knox’s former boyfriend), and Rudy Hermann Guede, who was arrested in Germany have been asked to face charges.

Knox was a student at the University of Washington and had been living with Kercher in Perugia while she was enrolled in ERASMUS programme in Italy. According to statements published by The Times, Knox told the police that she had been in the house when the murder took place and had “heard the screams”; however, she has subsequently given several different versions of the events of the night of the murder, saying her memory was clouded by having taken drugs, and now asserts that she spent the whole evening and night with her boyfriend at his flat.

Raffaele Sollecito, 24 years old and at the point of completing a degree at Perugia University at the time of the murder, was Knox’s boyfriend. The son of a urologist from Bari, and from an affluent family, he had known Knox for 2 weeks.

Sollecito claims that he returned to his flat and spent the evening surfing the internet on the night of the murder.[21] Detectives have said that his alibi is not substantiated by records of his internet service provider, however a private detective working for Sollecito disputes this.[22] Like Knox, he admits to having smoked marijuana on the day of the murder.

Police arrested a fourth suspect, Rudy Hermann Guede, 20, who originates from the Ivory Coast, on November 20. The Italian police announced that Guede had been arrested in Wiesbaden, Germany in an Interpol operation that traced Guede when he logged into his Facebook account. DNA tests indicate that Guede had sex with Kercher before her murder [24] and that faeces found in the toilet are his.

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