
Sollecito was almost completed along with his laptop science diploma at Perugia College when he met Knox at a live performance in October 2007. Their transient romance rapidly turned grim following their arrests in reference to Kercher’s homicide.
In a 2012 interview with Anderson Cooper, Sollecito expressed remorse for cooperating with police with out authorized counsel.
“The police, they wished it,” he recalled. “The detectives had their eyes on us for the reason that starting.”
In November 2007, expenses of homicide and sexual assault have been levied towards Sollecito and Knox. Regardless of constantly proclaiming their innocence, inconsistencies of their alibis surfaced. Sollecito claimed he was watching cartoons at dwelling the evening of the homicide, however his laptop information didn’t assist this.
Knox stated she was with Sollecito that evening, although he later admitted he could not affirm their whereabouts collectively. Rudy Guede, a 3rd social gathering concerned within the case, was arrested and later convicted for Kercher’s homicide in October 2008. He acquired a 30-year sentence however was launched early in November 2021.

