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| Kercher was found in her bed not fully clothed and with her throat cut on ] after spending three months in Italy. She had celebrated ] with friends on the programme the night before and had headed home. There was evidence on her body that she had had sex not long before her death, but the coroners didn't establish any evidence that she had been raped. Her two mobile phones, found close to her home in Perugia, carry her fingerprints and an as yet unidentified print. The six-and-a-half hour post-mortem also showed that Meredith Kercher had been killed with a small ]. Police examined photographs on her ] page. The case received international attention. | Kercher was found in her bed not fully clothed and with her throat cut on ] after spending three months in Italy. She had celebrated ] with friends on the programme the night before and had headed home. There was evidence on her body that she had had sex not long before her death, but the coroners didn't establish any evidence that she had been raped. Her two mobile phones, found close to her home in Perugia, carry her fingerprints and an as yet unidentified print. The six-and-a-half hour post-mortem also showed that Meredith Kercher had been killed with a small ]. Police examined photographs on her ] page. The case received international attention. | ||
| Three people have been held under arrest in connection with the case, a female American student and her Italian boyfriend, and |
Three people have been held under arrest in connection with the case, a female American student and her Italian boyfriend, and a Congolese man who runs a shop in the town. | ||
| ==Sources== | ==Sources== | ||
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Meredith Kercher born in 1986 in the United Kingdom, died on 2 November 2007 in Perugia, Italy, was part of the Erasmus student exchange programme, and had been in Italy for three months after completing her degree course in Britain.
Kercher was found in her bed not fully clothed and with her throat cut on 2 November after spending three months in Italy. She had celebrated Halloween with friends on the programme the night before and had headed home. There was evidence on her body that she had had sex not long before her death, but the coroners didn't establish any evidence that she had been raped. Her two mobile phones, found close to her home in Perugia, carry her fingerprints and an as yet unidentified print. The six-and-a-half hour post-mortem also showed that Meredith Kercher had been killed with a small penknife. Police examined photographs on her Facebook page. The case received international attention.
Three people have been held under arrest in connection with the case, a female American student and her Italian boyfriend, and a Congolese man who runs a shop in the town.
Sources
- Cops find dabs on girls phones - retrieved from The Sun
- Maniac murders Brit student - retrieved from The Sun
- British student found with throat cut - retrieved from Sky News
- Student murder sex evidence discovered - retrieved from Sky News
- Meredith murdered 'in sex encounter gone wrong' - retrieved from The Sydney Morning Herald