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Body of student returned home
11/11/2007 21:48 - (SA)
London - The body of a British student who was murdered in a flat in Italy, was flown back to England on Sunday.
Meredith Kercher, 21, of Couldsdon in Surrey, was found with her throat cut in her flat in the Italian city of Perugia this month. Italian prosecutors believe she was murdered after refusing to take part in an extreme sex game.
Three people - Kercher's American flat mate, Amanda Marie Knox, 20, of Seattle; Knox's Italian boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito, 23 and Congolese immigrant Diya "Patrick" Lumumba, 38 - have been jailed as suspects in her death.
All three have denied involvement in the murder.
An Italian newspaper reported that forensic traces found in Kercher's flat suggested that a fourth person could have been involved in the killing. La Republica said police discovered DNA in the flat's bathroom that did not match any of the three suspects.
Body was lying in a pool of blood
Authorities say Kercher - a Leeds University student who had traveled to Perugia in August to study at the city's University for Foreigners - was stabbed in the neck in her bed as she resisted sexual assault.
Police who visited the flat on November 2 to return Kercher's cellphone, which had been found in a neighbour's garden, discovered her semi-nude body in a pool of blood.
A judge in Perugia said on Friday that there was enough evidence to hold the three suspects for up to a year while the case against them was prepared.
- AP
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