Meredith Kerchers killers had no grudge against her rule judges

By Nick Squires in Rome Published: 4:02PM GMT 04 March 2010

Meredith Kercher"s attempted attempted attempted murder was "without planning, but any passion or hate opposite the victim" ruled the judges Photo: PA

Judges in Perugia expelled their long-awaited inform on the reasons they handed down guilty verdicts on Amanda Knox and her Italian beloved Raffaele Sollecito at the finish of their hearing 3 months ago.

Knox, 22, was condemned to twenty-six years in prison and her former lover, 25, perceived a twenty-five year sentence.

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The dual judges who presided over the box pronounced the motives for the heartless murdering remained a mystery, notwithstanding a year-long military review and an downright hearing in that dozens of witnesses gave evidence.

"It was a attempted attempted attempted murder but planning, but any passion or hate opposite the victim," judges Giancarlo Massei and Beatrice Cristiani resolved in a 427-page report.

The crime was a outcome of "purely infrequent contingencies" - Knox and Sollecito had not even programmed to encounter the third killer, internal drifter Rudy Guede, on the night of the killing.

Guede, 23, who was innate in Ivory Coast and changed to Italy as a child, inaugurated for a apart hearing in 2008, where he was found guilty and condemned to thirty years in jail, nonetheless the judgment was cut to sixteen years on appeal.

The crime was the full of red blood perfection of a multiple of "purely random" resources Knox and Sollecito had by possibility "run into" Guede on the dusk of November 1, 2007, and together they went to the bank lodge where Miss Kercher, 21, was on her own.

Miss Kercher was found passed in the lodge the subsequent morning, her half-naked physique in a pool of red blood and lonesome by a duvet. She had 3 low gash wounds to her neck and cuts and grazes all over her body.

The actuality that the killers had lonesome her physique showed "a sort of bewail for what they had done," the judges wrote.

Despite the strong miss of a motive, the box opposite Knox and Sollecito was H2O tight, the judges ruled in their authorised opinion.

The justification presented during the year-long hearing gave a "comprehensive and plain picture, but gaps or inconsistencies", they said.

The six-person jury in the box supposed the prosecutions evidence that the attempted attempted attempted murder was the outcome of a drug-fuelled but unpretentious organisation sex diversion that went horribly wrong.

The additional year in prison that Knox perceived was low mark for her secretly accusing a Congolese club owner, Patrick Lumumba, of impasse in the crime.

Knox, from Seattle, who was in Perugia for a one-year sell programme, had "freely indicted Lumumba of carrying killed Meredith and indicted him (despite) meaningful of (his) innocence".

Mr Lumumba outlayed dual weeks in prison prior to being expelled after a Swiss office worker came brazen to contend the dual of them had outlayed the dusk chatting in Lumumbas bar, in Perugias ancestral centre.

Both Knox and Sollecito, who have been in prison given being arrested by Italian military a week after the murder, are delectable their convictions, with the initial of dual levels of interest approaching to be listened in the autumn.