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The murder of Meredith Kercher was discovered on 2 November 2007 in Perugia, Italy. The twenty-one year-old English student was found in her bedroom at the cottage that she shared with other students, her windpipe crushed and her throat partially slashed.

After the murder the police arrested four suspects, including Kercher's American flatmate, Amanda Knox. One man was later released without charges. The remaining three suspects were held in custody in Perugia for one year prior to facing trial charged with murder, sexual assault and theft.[1] On October 28, 2008, Rudy Hermann Guede was convicted of murder in a "fast-track" trial and sentenced to 30 years in prison.[2] The trial of Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito started on January 16, 2009. The case has received heavy publicity in Italy, the United Kingdom, and the United States.[3] Contents [hide] 1 Background 2 Murder and investigation 3 Defendants 3.1 Amanda Knox 3.1.1 Public defense of Amanda Knox 3.2 Raffaele Sollecito 3.3 Rudy Hermann Guede 4 Trials and convictions 5 References //

Background

Meredith Susanna Cara Kercher was born in February 1986[4] in Southwark, London, England, and lived in Coulsdon, South London. She attended the University of Leeds.[5] She had been part of the ERASMUS student exchange programme, and had gone to Italy to complete her degree course.[6][7]

Murder and investigation

Kercher was murdered on the evening of 1 November 2007,[8] with pathologists putting her time of death between 20:30 and 23:00.[6][9] A judge assigned to the case read the pathology report at a bail hearing for the suspects and ruled that Kercher's carotid artery had not been ruptured in the attack, and that she likely died a "relatively slow and agonizing death."[10]

The following morning, the Postal and Communication Police came to investigate the discovery of two mobile phones in a nearby garden, one of which was registered to Ms. Kercher.[7] When they breached the door to Kercher's room, which had been locked from the inside, they reportedly found Kercher lying beneath a duvet in her room "soaked in blood."[11] Police have said Kercher's throat was slit with a shard of glass or a pen-knife, but have not yet located the murder weapon.[12] Police initially believed that the killer or killers escaped through a broken window in Kercher's room, since the door was locked when they arrived,[6][12][13] but now suspect the break-in was staged.[14] The following morning, Amanda Knox was spotted by two men at a laundromat on Via Fabretti washing clothes and a pair of shoes with a "North African" man.[15][16]

Italian prosecutors allege that the lethal wound was inflicted by Amanda Knox while Kercher was held down by Guede and Sollecito. The prosecution points to violent literature, such as comic books, that they found in Sollecito’s apartment.[17][18] Prosecutors allege that manga comics found in Sollecito's apartment recounted tales of killing female vampires