POLICE are looking at a new suspect in the infamous murder of British student Meredith Kercher.
The possible suspect fled Italy in the days after the 21-year-old was murdered while on exchange in Perugia in 2007, according to the former prosecutor.
Giuliano Mignini, who led the original investigation, has put forward the name of a new suspect, according to La Stampa.
He told the paper: “There are indications that this person may be implicated. It’s someone I’ve never considered before.”
No decision has been reached over whether to formally reopen the investigation.
Rudy Guede, from the Ivory Coast, was convicted in 2008 of the sexual assault and murder of Meredith after his DNA was found at the scene.
He was released from prison in 2021 after serving 13 years of a 16-year term.
Amanda Knox, Meredith’s American roommate, was also convicted of murder alongside with her ex-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito – but later fully exonerated.
In a dramatic saga, the pair were acquitted in 2011, convicted again in a 2014 retrial, and then definitively cleared in 2015.
Know said last year she had been “unjustly accuse for 17 years” and had not killed anyone.
She was also convicted of slander against her former boss, Patrick Lumumba, for wrongly accusing him of murder – and this was upheld earlier this year.
The Congolese man owned a bar where Knox, then a university student, had worked part-time.
He was arrested and spent two weeks in jail before being released after Knox said in a police interview he was to blame.
Guede is due to stand trial this month for separate charges of sexual assault against his former girlfriend.
While in prison, began dating a woman who then ended the relationship in 2023, and pressed charges.
The case hit the headlines again this summer when a new eight-part drama series charting Amanda Knox’s journey through the courts.
It explores the drawn-out process of finding the truth, and the frenzy of public speculation which surrounded the case.
