15 years after they were wrongfully accused of killing British national Meredith Kercher and imprisoned, Amanda Knox and her ex-lover Raffaele Sollecito have been photographed getting back together in Italy.
The two were pictured grinning in a casual snapshot while touring the old city of Gubbio, which is where they were scheduled to go on the day Meredith’s death was found in her chamber.
Nearly 15 years after Meredith’s passing, Mr. Sollecito, 38, told The Mirror that it was “the best” thing to see Ms. Knox, 35, again after their arduous struggle, which included an erroneous four-year jail sentence.
On November 2, 2007, Meredith, a 21-year-old exchange student from Leeds University who was staying in Peruga, was discovered dead with her throat slit and evidence of a sexual assault.
Mr. Sollecito and Ms. Knox, Meredith’s roommate, found her corpse the day after she passed away, and they phoned the police.
Ms. Knox, an American student, was 20 years old at the time, and Mr. Sollecito, an Italian man, was 23. They were detained four days later and eventually found guilty twice in court.
Due to the astonishing lack of evidence connecting each conviction to the crime, both judgments were reversed. Local bar owner Rudy Guede was also detained. His bloody prints and DNA, which were recovered from the crime scene, led to his conviction for murder, and he spent 14 of the 30 years of his jail term behind bars.
“There was also something quite light about it,” Mr. Sollecito, a former computer engineer who is now based in Milan, told The Mirror. “Ms. Knox suggested that we return to Gubbio.”
She said, “After all this time, we can travel,” and I could see her family had many plans for the trip.
“Going back was bitter-sweet since we were intended to go there under very different conditions, but it was simply good to be able to speak about something that wasn’t the fact,”
Meredith, a native of South London’s Coulsdon district, had only been in Perugia for three months when she was discovered dead from 47 stab wounds sustained during the sex attack.
The couple’s first convictions were overturned in 2011 when specialists informed Italy’s High Court that there had been significant mistakes made in the initial case.
Both were convicted guilty again in a 2013 trial, however Ms. Knox remained in the US.
They were cleared once again by the Supreme Court two years later.
Judges remarked that the murder investigation had surprising flaws and that there was no proof the pair was responsible for the assault.
During the trial, forensic errors like a contaminated glove were also brought up.
Even though they hadn’t seen one another in ten years, they stayed in contact through WhatsApp.
Mr. Sollecito had the opportunity to meet Ms. Knox’s infant daughter Eureka and her father Christopher while in Italy.