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Court clears Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito of murder

Italy's highest court has overturned the murder conviction of Amanda Knox and her former boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito and ordered them to be acquitted of the murder of British student Meredith Kercher.

Ms Kercher, a 21-year-old from Coulsdon, Surrey, was sexually assaulted and stabbed to death in her bedroom in 2007 while studying in Perugia, Italy.

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Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito cleared of Kercher murder

Italy's highest court has cleared American Amanda Knox and her Italian ex-boyfriend of the killing of Leeds University student Meredith Kercher .

Meredith Kercher was found stabbed to death in Italy

Knox, 27, and her former partner Raffaele Sollecito, were convicted for the second time last year for murdering 21-year-old student Kercher, who was found stabbed to death in a house the women shared in Perugia, central Italy, in 2007.

But this evening the panel of judges at Rome's palace of Justices overturned the convictions and acquited the pair.

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