ITALY: Prosecutors have asked life sentences at the trial in Perugia of Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito, who are accused of murdering British student Meredith Kercher

Record ID: 1519475

  • Title: ITALY: Prosecutors have asked life sentences at the trial in Perugia of Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito, who are accused of murdering British student Meredith Kercher
  • Date: 22nd November 2009
  • Summary: PERUGIA, ITALY (NOVEMBER 21, 2009) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF JOURNALISTS ATTENDING THE TRIAL FROM OUTSIDE THE COURTROOM THROUGH A SCREEN MORE OF JOURNALISTS TAKING NOTES AND READING NEWSPAPERS SUSPECT RAFFAELE SOLLECITO IN COURT SUSPECT AMANDA KNOX INSIDE THE COURT JOURNALISTS VARIOUS OF SUSPECTS AMANDA KNOX AND RAFFALE SOLLECITO TAKING WITH THEIR LAWYERS LAWYERS AND RELATIVES VARIOUS OF MORE OF THE SUSPECTS RAFFAELE SOLLECITO AND AMANDA KNOX INSIDE THE COURTROOM CLOSE TO THE POLICE PROSECUTORS ENTERING THE COURT ROOM
  • Embargoed: 7th December 2009 10:39
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  • Location: Italy
  • Country: Italy
  • Topics: Legal System
  • Reuters ID: LVA8MXIKEPMQLFG9F64BZ496ZIH5
  • Aspect Ratio: 4:3
  • Story Text: An Italian prosecutor asked for a life sentence on Saturday (November 21) for American university student Amanda Knox and her Italian boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito in the murder trial of British exchange student Meredith Kercher.
    Knox, 22, is accused by prosecutors of instigating the November 2007 killing of Kercher in the central Italian city of Perugia, where they were studying and shared an appartment.
    Knox and Sollecito both deny the charges.
    Kercher's semi-naked body was found in the apartment she shared with Knox in the university city of Perugia in central Italy in November 2007. Prosecutors say she was stabbed in the neck when Knox, Sollecito and a third suspect tried to involve her in an orgy.
    Knox and Sollecito say they are innocent.
    A third suspect, Rudy Guede, an Ivorian who was adopted by an Italian family, was sentenced to 30 years in prison late in 2008 for rape and murder.
    The defence lawyers of Knox and Sollecito maintain that Guede is the only culprit for the murder.
    A verdict is expected in early December.
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