Meredith Kercher's killer describes horrifying final moments of British student's life as he 'wrote on wall in BLOOD' - By Anthony Bond

Rudy Guede - who is serving a 16 year sentence for the murder of the 21-year-old - was tonight interviewed by Italian TV from jail

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Rudy Guede tonight protested his innocence from prison over the murder of Meredith Kercher

The killer of Meredith Kercher has tonight protested his innocence and told of the heartbreaking final moments before the British student’s death.
Rudy Guede - who is serving a 16 year sentence for the murder of the 21-year-old - was tonight interviewed by Italian TV from jail.
He claimed “Justice for Meredith has not been done” and also say he was writing in blood on the wall as Meredith tried to talk to him as she lay dying.
The 21-year-old student from Coulsdon, South London, was found half-naked, her throat slit, in the apartment she shared with Amanda Knox in Perugia, Italy.
Knox and her then boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito served four years in prison and were put on trial five times for the 2007 murder, with judges see-sawing between contradictory verdicts for eight years.

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Meredith Kercher was found with her throat slit in an apartment in Perugia, Italy

They were both definitively cleared of the murder in March when Italy's highest court overturned their convictions.
Speaking from his prison tonight, Guede described the moments before the student's death to Italian show Cursed Stories.
He said he was in a bathroom at the apartment but suddenly heard a “heartrending cry”.
He said: “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.
"I take another and then another....It was heartbreaking that moment, you try to do the best.
“....She was trying to tell me something. I wrote in blood on the wall to even understand.... fear overwhelmed me."

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American Amanda Knox has been cleared of killing the British student

He later added: “I cannot get another day in prison for killing Meredith. …. Justice for Meredith has not been done."
It was recently announced that Knox's former boyfriend has received £47,000 in public money to create an app to keep alive the memory of the dead.



Now free to rebuild his life, Sollecito has announced that he is to launch a start-up to commemorate the dead.
The idea for the unusual project, which will be called 'Memories', came to him while he was in prison accused of the Kercher murder, he told Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera.
He said: "I have planned an online portal, with an app, a sort of social network to commemorate the dead.
"It came to me when I was in prison in Terni and I thought of my mother. I couldn't go to visit her grave and being far away from her was painful. So the idea for "Memories" was born."

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This is the scene of the murder in Perugia

The computer science graduate won a 66,000 euro award from the region of Puglia in southern Italy for new business initiatives.
The money, to be paid over a three-year period, is reserved for unemployed under 35-year-olds.
Half the money, which he said will be used to employ two secretaries and two interns to develop the software, is a grant that doesn't have to be repaid, with the rest loaned.
Sollecito said he was planning to request compensation from the state for the wrongful accusation, but had not yet done so.

His family had spent 1.3 million euros on lawyers and investigators, he claimed.
Sollecito who is living with his father and stepmother in the Puglian village where he grew up, said he is enjoying 'normality'. 'I am finally free to go out and live like kids of my age.'
The Italian entrepreneur, who now plays rugby and has joined Italy's Radical political party, said no longer considers Knox a friend.
"We had only just met when we were tied together by a powerful experience," he explained.

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Raffaele Sollecito was also cleared of killing the 21-year-old

In 10 years, he said, he hoped to be married with children and be running a successful business. And he would like his family to meet Meredith's family 'to clear everything up once and for all'.

But despite the innocent verdict, the Kercher family have ordered Sollecito and Knox to stay away- and especially not to visit her grave.
The sister of the Leeds University student, Stephanie Kercher, said last month: "We are a family destroyed by pain that is trying to find a way to keep going and remember Meredith.
"'I have said that given the circumstances those two should not visit Meredith's tomb.

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"For us it is a place to meet and remember the happy moments that we spent with her.
"To go against our personal wishes would be disrespectful and unacceptable. Meredith should have at least the right to rest in peace finally."

Knox has seldom been photographed since March.
After the pair were released from prison in 2011, Knox immediately left the country and returned to the US, where she finished her degree in Creative Writing and published a $4million memoir.
She is dating musician Colin Sutherland.

Culled from Mirror