Nightmare finally over, says Sollecito

Raffaele Sollecito said he needs to heal wounds inside his heart and soul now that he has been cleared of the 2007 murder British student Meredith Kercher.

Sollecito, 31, who was acquitted alongside his US former girlfriend Amanda Knox, made his first public comments since the judicial saga ended on Friday night when Italy’s top criminal court overturned their earlier convictions.

“I feel today like someone who was kidnapped, who after seven years and five months has returned to freedom,” Sollecito said, referring to the time since Kercher was found fatally stabbed in her bedroom of the house she shared with Knox and other roommates.