This from the Canadian Press: Photo from Kercher's Facebook page. PERUGIA, Italy - For many college students, a year abroad is an experience of a lifetime: an opportunity to learn a new language and live in a new culture. But it's often just as much about partying in a place where alcohol and drugs are readily available.
Now, the murder of a 21-year-old Briton studying in this picturesque Italian city is throwing a light on the wild life of college kids abroad.
Meredith Kercher was sexually assaulted and stabbed to death Nov. 1 in the apartment she shared with her American roommate, Amanda Marie Knox, who is in custody along with two other people in connection with the death.
The gruesome tale of sex, drugs and murder has gripped Italy, and even the Vatican has weighed in on what it called the "dangers" of students living far from home and family...
The London Times reports:
Meredith Kercher ‘killed after refusing orgy’
The flatmate of Meredith Kercher, the British student who was murdered in the Italian town of Perugia, broke down and confessed to being involved with two men in her death, it emerged yesterday.
Detectives said that Amanda Knox, 20, an American student who had the bedroom next to Miss Kercher,confessed to a criminal act. Ms Knox’s boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito, 23, from Bari, southern Italy, and Patrick Diya Lumumba, 37, of Perugia, are also being held. (Lumumba claimed to be the grandson of Patrice Lumumba, the revolutionary who became the first prime minister of the Republic of Congo in 1960. He was assassinated in 1961.)
Detectives said that they believed that Ms Kercher may have been killed after refusing to take part in a violent orgy. Police have said that they now consider the case to be cut and dried.
The body of Ms Kercher, 21, from Coulsdon, South London, was discovered last Friday under a duvet in her bedroom at the house she shared with Ms Knox. She was partially clothed and her throat had been cut, it is believed, with a penknife...
The Daily Mail posted disturbing photos of the 23-year-old student which he had posted on his blog site. They showed him dressed in a surgeon's outfit, holding a meat cleaver in one hand and a container of bleach in the other...
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