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THE family of Meredith Kercher, the British student murdered in Italy last year, came face-to-face with one of the suspects at a court hearing yesterday.
Kercher’s mother Arline, her brother Lyle and her sister Stephanie flew to Perugia in central Italy for a hearing on a forensic report into her death.
The Italian student Raffaele Sollecito, wearing handcuffs, was the only one of the three suspects who attended the hearing. The others are Amanda Knox, Sollecito’s American ex-girlfriend, and Rudy Herman Guede, an Ivory Coast national. None of the three has yet been charged.
Kercher, 21, was found lying half-naked in the flat she shared with Knox. Prosecutors have said she was killed resisting sexual assault.
Her family, sitting opposite Sollecito, did not speak during the hearing. They briefly left the courtroom when forensic experts distributed photographs of Meredith’s body.
As they set off back to London, Moira Macfarlane, the British consul in Florence, said: “Meredith Kercher’s relatives have great faith in Italian justice.”
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