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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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Knox and Sollecito acquitted of Meredith Kercher murder

Italy's highest court has acquitted Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito of the murder of British student Meredith Kercher.

Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito have been finally acquitted of Meredith Kercher's murder, eight years after being first convicted. Credit: Reuters

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.

Her flatmate Knox and Knox's then-boyfriend Sollecito spent four years in jail for the murder but were acquitted on appeal in 2011.

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

Knox returned to the US before an appeal court threw out the acquittal and reinstated her and Sollecito's guilty verdicts last year.

Judges at the Supreme Court in Rome overturned the lower court's verdict and confirmed an acquittal for the pair, ending their long legal battle.

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