Who Killed Meredith Kercher?  

Amanda Knox holds hands with her boyfriend James Terrano in downtown Seattle before the call for a retrial

Meredith Kercher before her death

Amanda Knoxx and Sollecito

Amanda Knox collapsed and had to be supported by her boyfriend yesterday when she was told she would face a retrial over the murder of Meredith Kercher.
The American was at home with her family in Seattle when she received a phone call at 2am telling her an Italian court had quashed her acquittal for the killing.Meredith’s family welcomed yesterday’s judgment.
She was shattered by the news, and turned to her lover James Terrano in an attempt to 'keep positive' despite the new development.
Knox, 25, will not voluntarily return to Italy to stand trial, and is unlikely to be extradited by her native U.S. - she will therefore probably be tried in absentia.

Following the ruling by the supreme court in Rome means the case will be tried again next year.

Judges accepted that there were ‘contradictions’ in the case, quashing the acquittal of Knox and her ex-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito, 29.
In a dramatic turnaround, the pair, who both spent four years behind bars before they were cleared, were told they must stand trial again for the murder of the 21-year-old British student.

Meredith Kercher, from Coulsdon, Surrey, was in Italy as an exchange student from Leeds University. She was found dead in 2007, in the cottage she shared with Knox in the picturesque hilltop town of Perugia.
Her throat had been slit and her semi-naked body had been covered with a duvet. After a lengthy trial in Perugia, Knox and Sollecito were convicted of the murder in December 2009 and sentenced to 26 and 25 years respectively,
But two years later the pair were freed after an appeal court found that the case had been botched and DNA evidence contaminated.
A third suspect, Rudy Guede, whose DNA and bloody footprints were found all over the crime scene, is serving a 16-year prison sentence, reduced from 30 years on appeal.

The girl known worldwide by her self-awarded nickname 'Foxy Knoxy' said: ‘It was painful to receive the news that the Italian supreme court decided to send my case back for revision when the prosecution’s theory of my involvement in Meredith’s murder has been repeatedly revealed to be completely unfounded and unfair.‘I believe that any questions as to my innocence must be examined by an objective investigation and a capable prosecution.
‘The prosecution responsible for the many discrepancies in their work must be made to answer for them, for Raffaele’s sake, my sake, and most especially for the sake of Meredith’s family.’

Knox had rejoiced after her conviction was sensationally overturned in 2011. She fled Italy within hours, returning home to the US. She now shares a flat with boyfriend James Terrano,and is studying at the University of Washington in Seattle, where she can be near her parents and three sister.She is preparing for the publication next month of  a memoir for which she has been paid a reported £2.5million.

Source:DailyMail