The person convicted of the homicide of British scholar Meredith Kercher has been charged with sexual assault in opposition to an ex-girlfriend.
Rudy Guede, 38, was the one one that was definitively convicted of the homicide of 21-year-old Ms Kercher in Perugia, Italy, again in 2007.
He will probably be standing trial once more in November after an ex-girlfriend filed a police report in the summertime of 2023 accusing Guede of mistreatment, private harm and sexual violence.
Guede, from the Ivory Coast, was launched from jail for the homicide of Leeds College scholar Ms Kercher in 2021, after having served about 13 years of a 16-year sentence.
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Guede has been serving a restraining order and fitted with an digital ankle tag.
The Kercher homicide case, within the college metropolis of Perugia, was the topic of worldwide consideration.
Ms Kercher, a 21-year-old British trade scholar, was discovered murdered within the flat she shared together with her American roommate, Amanda Knox.
The Briton’s throat had been minimize and she or he had been stabbed 47 instances.
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(L-R) Raffaele Sollecito, Meredith Kercher and Amanda Knox. File pic: AP
Ms Knox and her then-boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito, had been positioned beneath suspicion.
Each had been initially convicted of homicide, however Italy’s highest court docket overturned their convictions, acquitting them in 2015.
