Suspect was in victim’s room

THE newest suspect in the killing of a student in Perugia admits he was in the woman’s room the night she died but says he didn’t kill her and an Italian who is trying to frame him did, his lawyer said yesterday.

Rudy Hermann Guede, who is being held in a German jail, is wanted in the death of British woman Meredith Kercher, 21, who was found dead on November 2 in her apartment in Perugia where she was studying for the year. Ms Kercher died from a stab wound to her neck, and prosecutors said she was killed resisting a sexual assault.

“Rudy was present, he was there, but he denies having ever committed acts of sexual violence against Meredith, and it wasn’t he who killed her,” said lawyer Walter Biscotti.