Tuesday, October 28, 2008

An African has been jailed for 30 years for murdering British exchange student Meredith Kercher in Italy

Rudy Hermann Guede, originally from the Ivory Coast, was found guilty after a trial behind closed doors. Miss Kercher, 21, from south London, was found dead at a house she shared in Perugia on 2 November 2007. Her throat had been cut. Judge Paolo Micheli also ruled that Raffaele Sollecito, 24, and Amanda Knox, 21, should face a murder trial. Leeds University student Miss Kercher, from Coulsdon, had been in the Umbrian town as part of her European Studies degree. Prosecutors claimed she was killed as part of a bungled sex game involving Guede, her housemate Miss Knox, from Seattle, and the American's ex-boyfriend Mr Sollecito, from Bari, southern Italy.

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