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U.S. student Knox convicted in Italy murder
1 of 6. American university student Amanda Knox arrives in court for her murder trial in Perugia December 4, 2009. Defendants Knox and Raffaele Sollecito are on trial for the murder of British student Meredith Kercher in November 2007.
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PERUGIA, Italy |
PERUGIA, Italy (Reuters) - An Italian court convicted American student Amanda Knox, 22, early on Saturday of murdering British student Meredith Kercher in a drunken sex game two years ago.
A court in the central Italian city of Perugia, sentenced Knox to 26 years in prison. It also convicted her Italian boyfriend at the time of the killing, Rafaele Sollecito, 25, and sentenced him to 25 years in prison.
Knox, from Seattle, was accused of masterminding the November 2007 killing of 21-year-old Briton Kercher, with whom she shared an apartment in this Italian university town.
Both Knox and Sollecito had protested their innocence.
Kercher, from Coulsdon in southeast England, was found semi-naked with her throat cut in the bedroom of her apartment in Perugia, where she was doing a year of overseas study.
DNA was found on her body from an Ivorian drifter with a prior criminal record, Rudy Guede, who was convicted in October 2008 and sentenced to 30 years in prison for her murder.
(Reporting by Daniel Flynn)
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