'Meredith suspects' bloody prints'
BLOODY footprints from murder suspects Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito were near the spot where the body of British student Meredith Kercher was found, Italian prosecutors said yesterday.
Forensic scientists told a court in Perugia how they used a chemical to find traces of blood invisible to the naked eye.
The court heard that two Knox footprints were discovered, in her room and the corridor outside the bedroom where Meredith, 21, was stabbed to death.
A print from Sollecito was in the corridor, and another was visible on a bath mat.
The detection substance used, called Luminol, features on the hit TV series CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, where investigators find blood that culprits thought they had scrubbed clean.
American student Knox, 21, and her former Italian boyfriend Sollecito, 25, both deny murdering Meredith in November 2007, after failing to entice her to join drug-fuelled sex games.
Knox says she was never at the home she shared with Meredith on the night of the murder, claiming she was with Sollecito.
Ivory Coast drifter Rudy Guede, 22, was sentenced last October to 30 years in jail.
He was found guilty of murdering and sexually assaulting Meredith, of Coulsdon, Surrey, who was on a language exchange programme.
The trial continues.