2007 murder of a British student in Perugia, Italy
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Murder of Meredith Kercher
Kercher in 2007
Location
Perugia, Umbria, Italy
Date
1 November 2007; 16 years ago (2007-11-01)
Attack type
Sexual assault
Weapon
Knife
Victim
Meredith Kercher
Perpetrator
Rudy Guede
Meredith Susanna Cara Kercher (28 December 1985 – 1 November 2007) was a British student on exchange from the University of Leeds who was murdered at the age of 21 in Perugia, Italy. Kercher was found dead on the floor of her bedroom. By the time the bloodstained fingerprints at the scene were identified as belonging to Rudy Guede, an Ivorian migrant, police had charged Kercher's American roommate, Amanda Knox, and Knox's Italian boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito. The subsequent prosecutions of Knox and Sollecito received international publicity, with forensic experts and jurists taking a critical view of the evidence supporting the initial guilty verdicts.
Knox and Sollecito were released after almost four years following their acquittal at a second-level trial. Knox immediately returned to the United States. Guede was tried separately in a fast-track procedure, and in October 2008 was found guilty of the sexual assault and murder of Kercher. He subsequently exhausted the appeals process and began serving a 16-year sentence. On 4 December 2020, an Italian court ruled that Guede could complete his term doing community service.[1] Guede was released from prison on November 24, 2021.[2]
The appeals verdicts of acquittal were declared null for "manifest illogicalities" by the Supreme Court of Cassation of Italy in 2013. The appeals trials had to be repeated; they took place in Florence, where the two were convicted again in 2014. The convictions of Knox and Sollecito were eventually annulled by the Supreme Court on 27 March 2015. The Supreme Court of Cassation invoked the provision of art. 530 § 2. of Italian Procedure Code ("reasonable doubt") and ordered that no further trial should be held, which resulted in their acquittal and the end of the case.[3] The verdict pointed out that as scientific evidence was "central" to the case, there were "sensational investigative failures", "amnesia", and "culpable omissions" on the part of the investigating authorities.[4]
^"Meredith Kercher: Rudy Guede to finish term doing community service". BBC News. 5 December 2020. Archived from the original on 29 November 2021. Retrieved 3 December 2021.
^"Italy frees man guilty of killing Amanda Knox's roommate, Meredith Kercher". NBC News. 24 November 2021. Archived from the original on 2 December 2021. Retrieved 3 December 2021.
^"Italian court acquits Knox and Sollecito of Kercher murder". BBC News. 28 March 2015. Archived from the original on 3 December 2020. Retrieved 3 December 2021.
^"Delitto Meredith, la Cassazione: "Clamorose le defaillance" Sollecito chiederà il risarcimento". 7 September 2015. Archived from the original on 7 November 2021. Retrieved 3 December 2021.
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