Prosecutor requests 30 years for Knox in Kercher murder
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(ANSA) – Florence, November 26 – An Italian prosecutor on Tuesday asked a Florence court to sentence American student Amanda Knox to 30 years in prison and her ex-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito to 26 years for the 2007 murder in Perugia of British exchange student Meredith Kercher.
Prosecutor Alessandro Crini requested 26 years for both on the murder count and a further four years for Knox for allegedly slandering Perugia bar owner Patrick Lumumba, whom she implicated during questioning. In 2009 Knox and Sollecito were sentenced to 26 and 25 years respectively. They were acquitted on appeal in 2011.
Italy’s supreme court in March quashed the acquittals and sent the case back to the appeal stage.