Amanda Knox to face retrial over Meredith Kercher murder

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Italy's highest criminal court has overturned the acquittal of Amanda Knox for the murder of British student Meredith Kercher and ordered a new trial. Yesterday Italian prosecutors has asked the high court in Florence to throw out the acquittal in the murder of 21-year-old Meredith .

Murdered British student Meredith Kercher The Court of Cassation in Rome heard six hours of arguments and spent several hours deliberating before announcing it would issue a decision this morning. It means the Italian ex-boyfriend of Amanda Knox, Raffaele Sollecito, will also face a retrial. The body of Miss Kercher, from Coulsdon, Surrey, was found in November 2007 in her bedroom at the house she shared with Knox and other roommates in Perugia, an Italian university town where the two women were exchange students. Her throat had been slashed. Prosecutors alleged that the Leeds University student was the victim of a drug-fuelled sex game gone awry. Knox and Sollecito denied wrongdoing. An Ivory Coast man, Rudy Guede, was convicted of the murder in a separate hearing and is serving a 16-year sentence. Copyright yahoo

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