Meredith Kercher was murdered in Perugia, Italy, on 1 November 2007. A young British woman from Coulsdon in Surrey, she was a student at Leeds University whose course included a stay at the University of Foreigners in Perugia. Her murder was widely reported, and was headline news in many countries, and she can realistically claim to be the most famous person ever to study at the prestigious Old Palace School in Croydon, although that is no consolation to her family.
She was the victim of something akin to Halal slaughter. She was stabbed in the throat, and effectively drowned as the blood entered her lungs. The murder scene was her bedroom in the apartment she shared with three other students. One of these was the American Amanda Knox. After prolonged police interrogation, she implicated an African businessman, Patrick Lumumba, who was duly arrested. Knox withdrew her allegations against him almost immediately, however, and it was eventually established that Lumumba had a robust alibi.
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