Decision due on new evidence tests in Kercher trial

Defence lawyers in the Meredith Kercher murder trial said today the court is deciding on their requests for new tests on evidence, including a knife prosecutors say could be the murder weapon.

American student Amanda Knox and her former Italian boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito have denied killing Knox’s British roommate, Meredith Kercher, in 2007 while the defendants were studying in the university town of Perugia