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'DNA of student on knife'
15/11/2007 22:43 - (SA)
Rome - Italian police found DNA traces of murdered British student Meredith Kercher and her American flatmate Amanda Knox on a knife belonging to Knox's boyfriend, an investigative source said on Thursday.
Kercher, a 21 year-old exchange student, was found dead in
her bedroom with a deep cut to the throat in the university city
of Perugia, about 130km north of Rome on November 2.
Knox, 20, Knox's Italian boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito, 24,
and a Congolese man, Lumumba Diya, 37, who runs a bar in
Perugia, have been in police custody since November 6.
The investigative source said the blade was a
kitchen knife and belonged to Sollecito.
Police suspect a sexual motive and Italian and British
newspapers have speculated that Kercher, on a year's study trip
from Leeds University, was killed because she refused to have
sex with one or more assailants.
The 21-year-old's body was flown back to Britain on Sunday.
The three suspects have not been formally charged over the
killing. All say they are innocent.
- Reuters
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