Meredith Kercher killer secretly ‘let out of jail to study for history degree'
BRITISH student Meredith Kercher’s killer is being secretly let out of prison to study for a history degree, it was reported last night.
Knifeman Rudy Guede allegedly has permission to leave his cell on the sex offenders’ wing of a top security Italian jail so he can pursue his studies.
The news is said to have rocked those close to the 21-year-old, from Coulsdon, Surrey, who was found knifed to death in student digs in Perugia in 2007.
But last night Guede’s lawyer Walter Biscotti shrugged off the furore as he confirmed the killer was entitled to partial freedom.
“If the English and Meredith’s family are upset, I don’t know what to say, that is the law,” he said. “Rudy can go out of prison for several hours at a time.
“He spends his days studying history.
“He spends some hours with a teacher, we don’t want to say where he is because he’ll get swamped by people from all over the world.”
Guede, 27, was convicted of Meredith’s murder in 2008 and received a 30-year prison sentence, which was later reduced to 16 years on appeal. His DNA was found on Meredith’s body.
American Amanda Knox, 26, and ex-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito, 29, were re-convicted of the murder last month and sentenced to 28 years and six months, and 25 years respectively.
Knox is in the US and has no intention of returning to Italy. Sollecito is currently free in Italy but has had his passport confiscated.
