Sollecito ‘very scared but hopes for absolution’

AMANDA KNOX’S former boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito is “very scared” but hopeful an Italian court will absolve him of murder, his father said.

Sollecito, who began dating Knox just over a week before the murder, was sentenced to 25 years in jail.

“He’s scared. It’s clear he’s very scared,” said his father Francesco Sollecito, a well-known urologist often seen outside the Perugia courthouse smoking a cigar.