Amanda Knox is innocent of Meredith Kercher murder, court hears

Italian child killer tells American student’s appeal hearing that fellow convict Rudy Guede gave him information in prison A convicted child murderer has told an Italian court that he has information clearing Amanda Knox of the killing of British student Meredith Kercher. Giving evidence at the American student’s appeal hearing in Perugia, Mario Alessi recounted a confession made to him in prison by Rudy Guede, who was also convicted of killing the 21-year-old. The Ivory Coast national confided in him that Knox and her Italian ex-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito were innocent, Alessi said. Knox, 23, from Seattle, is appealing against her conviction and 26-year prison sentence for the murder of her University of Leeds student housemate in November 2007. Sollecito, 26, who was sentenced to 25 years for the murder, is also trying to clear his name, and Alessi was called by his defence. Alessi told the court that Guede made his claim about the pair’s innocence in November 2009 during recreation time at the Viterbo prison. Guede, who was convicted in separate proceedings from Knox and Sollecito, denies the claim. Kercher, from Coulsdon in Surrey, was studying in Perugia when she was found with her throat slit in her bedroom at the house she shared with Knox and others. Prosecutors said the murder followed a sex game that went too far. Amanda Knox Italy guardian.co.uk

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