Latest: Court rejects grounds for new trial in Meredith Kercher murder case

Update 1.40pm: An appeals court in Florence has rejected a bid for a new trial and possible acquittal of the only person convicted of the 2007 murder of British university student Meredith Kercher.

Rudy Hermann Guede, an Ivorian, is serving a 16-year sentence for the murder of Ms Kercher, found stabbed in her bedroom in a house she shared in Perugia with American student Amanda Knox.