Meredith Susanna Cara Kercher was a British student on exchange from the University of Leeds. She was found dead on the floor of her bedroom in Perugia, Italy. Kercher’s American flatmate, Amanda Knox, and Knox’s Italian boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito, were charged with her murder. Rudy Guede was found guilty of the sexual assault and murder of Kercher in October 2008 and began serving a 16-year sentence. On December 4, 2020, an Italian court ruled that Guedede could complete his term doing community service.
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Meredith Susanna Cara Kercher was a British student on exchange from the University of Leeds. She was found dead on the floor of her bedroom in Perugia, Italy. Kercher’s American flatmate, Amanda Knox, and Knox’s Italian boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito, were charged with her murder. They were released after almost four years following their acquittal at a second-level trial, even though Knox was sentenced to 3 years’ imprisonment for maliciously accusing an innocent. The appeals verdicts of acquittal were declared null, however, by the Supreme Court of Cassation of Italy in 2013. The two were convicted again in 2014, but the conviction was eventually annulled by theSupreme Court on 27 March 2015. The verdict pointed out that as scientific evidence was central to the case, there were ‘glaring defaillances’ and ‘culpable omissions of investigation activities’ Rudy Guede was found guilty of the sexual assault and murder of Kercher in October 2008 and began serving a 16-year sentence. On December 4, 2020, an Italian court ruled that Guedede could complete his term doing community service. The first public public holiday in Italy was November 4, when Kercher and Knox attended the EuroChocolate festival. The second public holiday was November 25, when Knox and Kercher attended a classical music concert where Knox met a 23-year-old computer student.
The third and final public holiday of the Kercher-Knox exchange year was November 30, when they attended a concert by the Italian pop star Edith Piaf at the Palazzo della Pergola in Rome. The final holiday of Knox’s exchange year in October 2007 was a public holiday, when she attended a music concert by The Beatles at the Villa d’Italia in Florence. In October 2007, she began courses in modern history, political theory, and the history of cinema. Fellow students later described her as caring, intelligent, witty, and popular. She made a cameo appearance in the music video for Kristian Leontiou’s song ‘Some Say’ in 2004. She aspired to work for the European Union or as a journalist. In September 2007, Kercher shared a four-bedroom ground-floor flat with two Italian women in their late twenties, Filomena Romanelli and Laura Mezzetti, and a 20- year-old American student from the U.S., Amanda Knox. The house was occupied by four Italian young men with whom both Kercher. and Knox were friendly one night. In mid-October Kercher, Knox and Knox met Rudy Guesde, who had been invited into the lower level of the house by some of the tenants, whom he had attached himself to himself. On October 25, 2007, the house was raided by police. The police found Kercher’s body in the bedroom of the flat where she had been staying.
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