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Knox immediately returned to the United States.
However, the appeals verdicts of acquittal were declared null for "manifest illogicalities" by the Supreme Court of Italy in The appeals trials had to be repeated, they took place in Florence, where the two were convicted again in The Supreme Court of Cassation invoked the provision of art. She had two older brothers, John and Lyle, and an older sister, Stephanie. Her father, also named John, is a freelance journalist , and her mother, Arline, is a housewife. Kercher attended the Old Palace School in Croydon. Kercher studied European politics and Italian at the University of Leeds. Working as a barmaid , tour guide and in promotions to support herself, she made a cameo appearance in the music video for Kristian Leontiou 's song "Some Say" in In October , she attended the University of Perugia , where she began courses in modern history, political theory, and the history of cinema.
Fellow students later described her as caring, intelligent, witty, and popular. Perugia, a well-known cultural and artistic centre, is a city of , people. More than a quarter of the population are students, many from abroad, giving it a vibrant social scene. Her flatmates were two Italian women in their late twenties, Filomena Romanelli and Laura Mezzetti, and a year-old American student from the University of Washington , Amanda Knox, who was attending the University for Foreigners in Perugia on an exchange year.
Kercher and Knox moved in on 10 and 20 September , respectively, meeting each other for the first time.
The lower level of the house was occupied by four Italian young men with whom both Kercher and Knox were friendly. Guede had been invited into the lower level flat by some of the Italian tenants, to whom he had attached himself. Kercher's Italian flatmates were out of town, as were the occupants of the downstairs flat. She parted company with a friend at around 8: Kercher's bedroom door was locked, which Knox took as indicating that Kercher was sleeping.
After showering in the bathroom she and Kercher shared, Knox found feces in the toilet of the bathroom shared by Romanelli and Mezzetti.
Noticing a broken window in Romanelli's bedroom and alarmed that Kercher did not answer her door, Sollecito unsuccessfully tried to force the door open. Sollecito called his sister, a lieutenant in the carabinieri , for advice. She advised him to call the emergency number, which he did. After receiving a phone call from Knox, Romanelli arrived at the flat. Candace Dempsey writes that in rummaging around, looking for anything that might be missing, Romanelli inadvertently disturbed the crime scene.
Instead, Romanelli's male friend forced the door open at around 1: Pathologist Luca Lalli, from Perugia's forensic science institute, performed the autopsy on Kercher's body. Her injuries consisted of sixteen bruises and seven cuts. These included several bruises and a couple of insubstantial cuts on the palm of her hand.
Bruises on her nose, nostrils, mouth, and underneath her jaw were compatible with a hand being clamped over her mouth and nose. A funeral was held on 14 December at Croydon Parish Church , with more than people in attendance, followed by a private burial at Croydon's Mitcham Road Cemetery.
Five years after the murder, the city of Perugia and its University for Foreigners, in co-operation with the Italian embassy in London, instituted a scholarship fund to honour the memory of Meredith Kercher. In Italy, individuals accused of any crime are considered innocent until proven guilty, although the defendant may be held in detention. Unless the accused opts for a fast-track trial, murder cases are heard by a corte d'assise English translation: A guilty verdict is not regarded as a definitive conviction until the accused has exhausted the appeals process, irrespective of the number of times the defendant has been put on trial.
Italian trials can last many months and have long gaps between hearings the first trial of Knox and Sollecito was heard two days a week, for three weeks a month. If the Corte di Cassazione overturns a verdict, it explains what legal principles were violated by the lower court, which must abide by the ruling when re-trying the case.
It was unusual for an ex-consul to hold the lower-ranking position of aedile, [30] but Agrippa's success bore out this break with tradition. Although created for kids Read more Read less. By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Amazon Rapids Fun stories for kids on the go. After receiving a phone call from Knox, Romanelli arrived at the flat.
If the Corte di Cassazione upholds a guilty verdict of the appeal trial, the conviction becomes definitive, the appeals process is exhausted, and any sentence is served. Guede, then aged 17, was adopted by a wealthy Perugia family. In mid, his adoptive family asked him to leave their home. Guede went to a friend's house at about He later went to a nightclub where he stayed until 4: After his fingerprints were found at the crime scene, Guede was extradited from Germany; he had said on the Internet that he knew he was a suspect and wanted to clear his name.
Two neighbours of Guede's, foreign female students who were with him at a nightclub on that evening, told police the only girl they saw him talking to had long blonde hair. Guede said that he and Kercher had kissed and touched, but did not have sexual intercourse because they did not have condoms readily available. He claimed that he then developed stomach pains and crossed to the large bathroom on the other side of the apartment. Guede said he heard Kercher scream while he was in the bathroom, and that upon emerging, he saw a shadowy figure holding a knife and standing over her as she lay bleeding on the floor.
Guede further stated that the man fled, while saying in perfect Italian, "Trovato negro, trovato colpevole; andiamo" "Found black man, found culprit; let's go". The court found that his version of events did not match the forensic evidence, and that he could not explain why one of his palm prints, stained with Kercher's blood, had been found on the pillow of the single bed, under the disrobed body. Guede originally said that Knox had not been at the scene of the crime, but he later changed his story to say that she had been in the apartment at the time of the murder.
He claimed that he had heard her arguing with Kercher, and that, glancing out of a window, he had seen Knox's silhouette outside the house. Three weeks after Knox and Sollecito were convicted, Guede had his prison term cut from 30 to 24 years before the automatic one-third reduction given for the fast-track trial, resulting in a final sentence of 16 years.
A lawyer representing the Kercher family protested the "drastic reduction" in the sentence. Meredith Kercher arrives in Perugia. Kercher moves into Via della Pergola 7, renting a room from two Italian flatmates. Amanda Knox rents the fourth bedroom. Knox implicates herself and Patrick Lumumba. Knox, Sollecito, and Lumumba arrested. Fingerprints at crime scene identified as Guede's; DNA later identified as his. Guede sentenced to 30 years.
Knox and Sollecito charged with murder, sexual assault.
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Prosecution requests life for Knox, Sollecito, and nine months' solitary confinement for Knox. In outlining the case for colleagues hours after the discovery of the body, Perugia Reparto volanti Flying Squad Detective Superintendent Monica Napoleoni told them that the murderer was definitely not a burglar and that apparent signs of a break-in were staged as a deliberate deception. She later testified that she was subjected to pressure tactics and struck by police to make her incriminate herself.
Napoleoni was backed by several other detectives in arguing for the arrest of Knox, Sollecito, and Patrick Lumumba, the latter whom Knox had implicated as being involved. However, Napoleoni's immediate superior, Chief Superintendent Marco Chiacchiera, thought arrests would be premature and advocated close surveillance of the suspects as the best way to further the investigation. Matteini ordered Knox, Sollecito, and Lumumba to be detained for a year.
The prosecution charged Guede with the murder.
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