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'Group Attack' Led to Meredith Slaying: Judge

Posted Dec 20, 07 12:36 PM CST in Crime & Courts,  World 

(Newser) – An Italian judge yesterday upheld a decision to detain the three suspects in the murder of Meredith Kercher, saying that "none of them can be said to have played a passive role." The Times of London reports that the court in Perugia has seen evidence suggesting that Kercher's roommate Amanda Knox, her Italian boyfriend, and a third suspect all participated in a "group attack" on the British exchange student.

Knox has given several conflicting statements of their whereabouts on the night before Kercher was found dead, her throat slashed: in her most recent contradiction, she claimed to have read a Harry Potter book at her boyfriend's apartment, when in fact the book was at her and Kercher's home. Italy's La Stampa called the revelation "another blow to the credibility of their alibi."

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Luciano Ghirga, the defense lawyer of jailed American suspect Amanda Knox, looks on outside Perugia's Capanne jail, Italy, Monday, Dec. 17, 2007. Knox, a suspect in the slaying of British student Meredith...   (Associated Press)
The coffin of Meredith Kercher is being carried out after a funeral service at the Parish Church of Croydon, South London, Friday, Dec. 14, 2007. Twenty one year old Meredith Kercher was found stabbed...   (Associated Press)
This photo released by the Italian Police, shows 22-year-old British university student Meredith Kercher, who was found dead Friday, Nov. 2, 2007 with her throat slashed in the bedroom of a house in the...   (Associated Press)
This photo taken Friday Nov. 2, 2007, and made available on Thursday Nov. 8, 2007 shows Amanda Marie Knox, left, and Raffaele Sollecito, looking on outside the rented house where 21-year-old British student...   (Associated Press)
Police officers inspect the house where British student Meredith Kercher was killed Friday, Nov. 1, 2007. An American woman who traveled to Italy to comfort her daughter following the slaying of her roommate...   (Associated Press)
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