Meredith Kercher murder case full of 'glaring errors'

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Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito spent four years in jail before being acquitted of Meredith Kercher's murder Credit: Reuters

The case against American student Amanda Knox, who spent four years in jail accused of the murder of her British housemate Meredith Kercher, was full of "glaring errors", court documents have revealed.

According to papers released by the Italian court that acquitted Knox and her former boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito earlier this year, there were "no certain biological traces" of either suspect in the room where the murder was committed or on the victim's body.

In its official explanation of the reasons for throwing out the conviction the Court of Cassation wrote: "There was no shortage of glaring errors in the underlying fabric of the sentence in question."

Meredith Kercher was found dead in 2007 at the Perugian flat she shared with Amanda Knox. Credit: .

Knox was convicted of brutally stabbing 21-year-old Kercher after the British student was found dead in the house the pair shared in the Italian town of Peugia in 2007.

The American, and her boyfriend Sollecito, spent four years in jail for Kercher's murder before being acquitted on appeal in 2011, having their guilty verdicts reinstated by a US appeal court and then finally being cleared again in March of this year.

Ivory Coast-born Rudy Guede is now serving a 16-year sentence for the murder after opting for a fast-track trial when "copious" biological traces relating to him were reportedly found at the crime scene.