Transgender mafia turncoat claims brother killed Kercher

A Transgender mafia turncoat has accused her brother of the murder of British student Meredith Kercher in 2007 at the retrial of Amanda Knox and her Italian ex-boyfriend.

Luciano Aviello — who told the court that she wanted to be referred to as “Luciano Lucia” — served time with Knox’s co-accused, Raffaele Sollecito, in prison.

Aviello also testified at the original trial before retracting the testimony and being charged with perjury. But she returned to the original accusation yesterday, saying that her brother killed Kercher in the university town of Perugia during a random burglary.

“My brother is the guilty one, not Amanda or Sollecito,” Aviello, who is still in prison in an entirely separate case, said.

The testimony has already been dismissed as unreliable and lawyers questioned why the appeal court judges had decided to re-hear it.

Kercher was found in a pool of blood in the house she shared with Knox on Nov 2, 2007, her body riddled with stab wounds in a murder experts said had to be carried out by more than one person.

Ivory Coast-born drifter Rudy Guede, who like the other two has always denied the murder, is the only person still in prison for the crime.

Neither Knox nor Sollecito were in court. They each served four years in prison before being acquitted on appeal in 2011 in a sentence that was rejected by Italy’s supreme court this year following an appeal.

The prosecution has said the murder was the result of “an erotic game that spun out of control” — a hypothesis the supreme court suggested was valid.

The court yesterday also decided new DNA tests on a kitchen knife believed to be the murder weapon would be carried if there is sufficient trace.

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