Amanda Knox’s ex, Raffaele Sollecito, claimed his innocence in court on Wednesday in the 2007 death of Meredith Kercher. For 20 minutes he spoke about the “absurd” accusations against he and Knox, who spent four years in an Italian jail.
Knox and Sollecito were convicted of Kercher’s murder in 2009 but it was appealed in 2011. However, Italy's supreme court threw out the appeal last year and the retrial started in September.
Although they had only been dating a week before Kercher’s murder, Sollecito said of their romance, "We had a carefree love” and "wanted to be isolated in this little fairy tale,” ABC News reports.
He also called Knox “the first true love of my life. Even if late in my life, this flower blossomed.”
Sollecito maintained his innocence in this “atrocious crime,” saying he can’t find a job because of the allegations against him. , "I appeal to you to give an Italian like you the possibility of having a life,” he asked.
The trial will continue on Nov. 25, and Knox likely won’t attend, Telegraph reports.
Rudy Guede, a drug dealer in Perugia, has also been accused of being involved in the murder after an alleged drug-fueled sex game went wrong. He's serving a 16-year jail sentence.
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