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Page last updated at 22:51 GMT, Tuesday, 28 October 2008

Kercher murderer gets 30 years

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A 21-year-old man has been found guilty of killing Leeds University exchange student Meredith Kercher.

Rudy Hermann Guede, originally from the Ivory Coast, was sentenced to 30 years in prison.

The judge in Perugia, Italy, also ruled that Raffaele Sollecito, 24, and Amanda Knox, 21, should face a murder trial. Duncan Kennedy reports.

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