Accused killer was carrying knife, Meredith trial told

A police officer told the Meredith Kercher murder trial today that one the students accused of killing her was carrying a knife when he was taken to a police station immediately after the killing.

Daniele Moscatelli told the Italian court that defendant Raffaele Sollecito looked “confused and nervous” during the questioning and that he was carrying a “long” knife in his pocket. The knife is not believed to be the murder weapon.

Another police officer said that his American co-defendant Amanda Knox nervously walked up and down at the station and was hitting her head with her hands.

Knox, (aged 21), from Seattle and her Italian former lover Sollecito, (aged 24), deny murdering Miss Kercher, (aged 21), from Coulsdon, Surrey, who was found dead in her bedroom on November 2, 2007 in the house in Perugia she shared with Knox and others on her year abroad.

Her throat had been cut and her semi-naked body was partially covered by a duvet.

Knox and Sollecito are accused of murdering her after she refused to participate in a sex game.