Footprint ‘wrongly attributed’ in murder case

A BLOODY footprint found at the house where a British student was killed in Italy was wrongly attributed to one of the defendants in the case, a forensic expert testified at the murder trial yesterday.

The footprint was found on a bathroom rug in the house in Perugia where Meredith Kercher was killed in November 2007. Prosecutors have attributed it to Raffaele Sollecito, an Italian who is on trial on murder charges with Amanda Knox, his girlfriend at the time.

Both defendants deny wrongdoing.