01 November 2007

Thursday

2007-11-01

Events

 * British student Meredith Kircher is found dead on the bedroom floor of her apartment in Perugia, Italy. Kircher was on an exchange from the University of Leeds. Italian police charged Kercher's American flatmate, Amanda Knox, and Knox's Italian boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito of the murder. Ivory Coast citizen Rudy Guede was also tried separately in a fast-track procedure and in October 2008 was found guilty of the sexual assault and murder of Kercher. Knox and Sollecito were also later prosecuted although were released after almost four years following their acquittal at a second-level trial. The appeals trials then had to be repeated, and the couple were convicted again in 2014. Their conviction was eventually annulled by the Italian Supreme Court on March 27 2015. Rudy Guede continues to serve his 16 year sentence.