Difficult to forgive Meredith’s killer, says family

THE sister of Meredith Kercher said it would be “very difficult” to forgive anyone for the British student’s murder as she awaited the outcome of the appeal hearing.

Speaking several hours before the verdict was issued, Stephanie Kercher said her sister had been “hugely forgotten” in the furore around the appeal launched by American student Amanda Knox and her Italian ex-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito over the November 2007 killing in Perugia.

Sitting alongside her mother Arline and brother Lyle, she told a press conference: “It is very difficult to keep her memory alive in all of this.”