Italian prosecutors want the convicted killers of British student Meredith Kercher to be given official life sentences.

THE defence for US student Amanda Knox says female police officers investigating the murder of British student Meredith Kercher “had it in” for Knox because of a sex toy found in the home both women shared.

AMANDA KNOX was branded a “talented and calculated liar” during the closing stages of British student Meredith Kercher’s murder trial.

Prosecutors requested life sentences today for an American student and her former Italian boyfriend accused of killing a young British woman.

Prosecutors requested life sentences today for an American student and her former Italian boyfriend accused of killing a young British woman.

AN AMERICAN student accused of murdering her British roommate in Italy had a growing hatred for the victim and killed her in retaliation during a drug-fuelled sex game, a prosecutor said yesterday in closing arguments at her murder trial.

British student Meredith Kercher was killed by her room mate in a drug-fuelled revenge attack, a court heard today.

Prosecutors in Italy today began their closing arguments in the Meredith Kercher murder trial.

Two former lovers suspected of killing Leeds University student Meredith Kercher will find out today if they are to face trial.

A court-appointed expert said today there was not enough evidence to conclude that a murdered British student had been sexually assaulted or strangled, nor was it possible to narrow the window of time in which she was killed.

A court in Perugia will decide today whether to authorise a second post mortem examination on the body of murdered British exchange student Meredith Kercher.

The Italian man held in connection with the murder of British exchange student Meredith Kercher said today his girlfriend and fellow suspect Amanda Knox was a pleasure seeker who “could not distinguish dream from reality”.