Knox present during Kercher murder: Convict

The Ivorian serving a 16-year sentence for killing British exchange student Meredith Kercher in Italy in 2007 has broken his silence to protest his innocence and allege that Kercher’s ex-roommate Amanda Knox was at the crime scene on the night of the brutal murder.

Rudy Guede said he was “sure 101 per cent” that he heard Kercher’s former flat mate, American Amanda Knox’s voice at their apartment in Perugia at the time of the murder, he told TV show Cursed Stories in an interview from prison late on Thursday.

In the interview, 30-year-old Guede stood by his original story that Kercher had invited him to the apartment on the evening of November 1, 2007. They did not have sex, as they did not have a condom, he said. They had first kissed in a local disco at Halloween after meeting a few months earlier, he claimed.

Feeling the effects of a spicy kebab he’d eaten, Guede spent “around 10 or 11 minutes” on the toilet and listened to two-and-a-half songs, before hearing a “heart-rending” scream “louder than the music from my headphones” which startled him.

Without flushing the toilet, Guede said he rushed out of the bathroom and glimpsed an unknown male figure in the hallway who allegedly warned Knox that they had “been discovered” and ran out of the building, saying to Guede as he fled: “Black man found, culprit found.”

“At that moment I see Meredith on the ground and an abundance of blood. I go to the bathroom and take a towel and try to staunch the wound in the neck,” he said.

“I take another and then another... It was heartbreaking that moment, you try to do your best.”

“She was trying to tell me something. I wrote in blood on the wall to understand... fear overwhelmed me,” Guede said.

He later added: “I cannot get another day in prison for killing Meredith... Justice for Meredith has not been done.”

“It was not me, but I’m the only one condemned,” he said.

There was no evidence of his DNA on the murder weapon or in Kercher’s bedroom, where her half-naked body was found with her throat cut and over 40 stab wounds, Guede said.