Amanda Knox’s ex-boyfriend seeks compensation for wrongful detention
Published 3:39 pm Monday, January 25, 2016
ROME — Raffaele Sollecito, who was acquitted last year of the murder of British student Meredith Kercher along with his ex-girlfriend — Amanda Knox, of Seattle — filed Monday for more than half a million euros in damages over wrongful detention.
Sollecito’s lawyers handed in the petition seeking compensation worth 516,000 euros ($560,000) to the Florence appeals court, the ANSA news agency said. It was unclear how long it could take to examine it.
Kercher was found dead Nov. 2, 2007, in the central Italian university town of Perugia. The 21-year-old was found half-naked, her throat slit, inside her locked bedroom in the flat she shared with Knox and two other Italian women.
Sollecito and Knox were arrested and spent four years in prison until a 2011 ruling quashed a first conviction. The world-famous case dragged on through more appeals until top judges ruled in March there was insufficient evidence for the prosecution.
Ivory Coast-born drug dealer Rudy Guede is the only person who has been tried and convicted for the murder, receiving a 16-year jail term in 2010. But courts established he did not act alone, leaving open the question of who were his accomplices.
