Knox trial hears alleged murder weapon no match to knife used

THE knife police say killed British student Meredith Kercher could not have been used to cut her throat, a forensic expert told a court yesterday.

The blade, which had traces of both Kercher’s DNA and that of her accused killer, American Amanda Knox, was too long to be the weapon, defence witness Carlo Torre said.

Knox and her Italian former boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito are both accused of murdering Kercher, 21, from Coulsdon, Surrey, at the apartment she shared in Perugia in November 2007. Both deny the charges. Prosecutors allege Kercher was killed during what had begun as a sex game.