Amanda Knox sentenced for 26 yrs: Guilty of Meredith Kercher murder

by wildcherry on Friday, December 4th, 2009 | News, World

The verdict is out on Amanda Knox and her Italian former boyfriend. They were found guilty last night of the murder of the British student Meredith Kercher, who was stabbed to death two years ago.

Knox, 22 and Raffaele Sollecito, 25, killed Kercher in an attack which ended with Sollecito taunting Kercher with one knife while Knox plunged another into her throat, the court heard during the trial.

Kercher, 21, from Coulsdon, Surrey, was found with a deep knife wound in the throat on the floor of her bedroom in the flat she shared with Knox and two young Italian women. She was a student at Leeds University and was spending a year at Perugia’s university for foreigners when she was found murdered on 2 November 2007.

Knox, who came into the courtroom weeping and shaking, appeared not to react immediately as the sentences were read out, but then broke down and buried herself in the shoulder of her senior lawyer, Luciano Ghirga. She was led from the court by police and her sobbing could be heard from the corridor that leads away from the vaulted underground court in which the trial has been heard.

One Response to “Amanda Knox sentenced for 26 yrs: Guilty of Meredith Kercher murder”

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Ingo Robier Says:
December 4th, 2009 at 6:51 pm
Kercher’s DNA on the tip of the murder weapon, Knox’s DNA on the handle of the carefully bleached knife, Sollecito’s DNA on the clasp of Meredith’s bra, his blood-smeared footprints in the bathroom and a faked burglary plus Amanda’s attempt to slander her boss: do you really need any more evidence for a murder conviction?