(ANSA) - Florence, January 10 - A Florence court on Tuesday
ruled that a petition to review the case of Ivorian Rudy Guede,
who is serving a 16-year sentence for the murder of British
exchange student Meredith Kercher in Perugia in 2007, was
"inadmissible".
Guede's lawyers said they might appeal to the supreme Court
of Cassation.
A lawyer for Kercher's family, Francesco Maresca, said "I'd
say this story is finished."
The court was reviewing documentation from the supreme
court's conviction of Guede and its acquittal of two other
former suspects, American Amanda Knox and her ex-boyfriend
Raffaele Sollecito.
Guede's defence team had argued that his conviction was based
on the "necessary participation also of Amanda Know and Raffaele
Sollecito", something that the supreme Cassation Court has
"absolutely ruled out".
The attorneys representing Kercher's family, Vieri Fabiani
and Francesco Maresca, instead denied that Guede's conviction
implied that Knox and Sollecito had played a role in the murder.
Fabiani said there were no grounds to revise the trial
because new evidence had not been presented and Guede's
conviction was not incompatible with the acquittal of Knox and
Sollecito.
"What has not been proven is that the murder could not be
committed without those accomplices", as claimed by Guede in his
petition, Fabiani noted.
Maresca added that the petition to revise the trial was also
"not sufficiently motivated".
Guede's DNA was found inside Kercher and all over the murder
flat.
Knox and Sollecito's conviction was based on DNA evidence
that was later ruled unsafe, leading to their final acquittal.
Review of Guede conviction rejected (3)
Florence court rules petition inadmissible