Ivorian Rudy Guede, serving the last
few of a 16 year sentence for murdering British student Meredith
Kercher in Perugia in 2007, has now been entrusted to the social
services to do community service instead of jail time for the
rest of his sentence, ANSA learned Friday.
Guede, who turns 34 on December 26, was 20 years old at the time
of the murder.
He is the only person definitively convicted of killing the
British exchange student after the Italian supreme court
acquitted two other former suspects, American Amanda Knox and
her Italian ex-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito, overturning an
earlier conviction.
The Ivorian, who has maintained his innocence, made an
unsuccessful bid for his case to be reviewed after Knox and
Sollecito were cleared.
The explanation of the supreme court's conviction of Guede said
he was not the only person involved.
Guede's DNA was found inside Kercher and all over the murder
scene.
Knox and Sollecito's initial conviction was based on DNA
evidence that was later ruled unsafe, leading to their final
acquittal.
Guede said he went into a "state of shock" after finding
Kercher dead following a visit to the bathroom after meeting her
on the night she was killed.
He fled the country and was arrested in Germany a few days after
the murder.
In September last year Guede was granted daytime release from
jail.
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