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Her brother Lyle said he believed extradition would be appropriate "if someone has been found guilty and convicted of a murder, and if an extradition law exists between those two countries". Knox, 26, has said she will only be extradited to Italy from the US "kicking and screaming". In a statement after the case concluded, she said she was "frightened and saddened by this unjust verdict". Sollecito's lawyer, Luca Maori, said his client had heard the verdict on TV and looked "annihilated".

Sollecito had earlier been at the Florence court, which imposed a travel ban on the year-old and ordered that his passport be revoked. The court noted that there was a "real and actual the danger that Sollecito could escape Italian justice" - but he is free to move in Italy until the verdict is confirmed.

Knox and Sollecito were also ordered to pay damages to Miss Kercher's family as part of the ruling. The Kercher family's lawyer, Francesco Maresca, called the verdict "justice for Meredith and the family". Knox and Sollecito, 29, were jailed for the murder in but the verdicts were overturned in and the pair were freed.

However, the acquittals were themselves overturned last year by the Court of Cassation, which returned the case to the Florence court. The Court of Cassation will now hear the defendants' appeals. In Italy, verdicts are not considered final until they are confirmed, usually by the Court of Cassation. Legal experts say it is unlikely Italy will request Knox's extradition until then.

Knox is currently studying for a degree in creative writing at the University of Washington, and lives in her hometown of Seattle. Rudy Guede, from the Ivory Coast, was convicted of Miss Kercher's murder in , and sentenced to 16 years in prison.

The verdict specified that he did not commit the crime alone. Prosecutors sought to prove Miss Kercher had died in a sex game involving Knox and Sollecito that went wrong. They have since alleged that the murder resulted from a heated argument over cleanliness in the Perugia apartment. Kercher convict found near border. Meredith Kercher murder: Timeline. Kercher family hold press conference. Knox: 'I will fight this to the end'. Guilty verdicts in Kercher case.

Please use Chrome browser for a more accessible video player. The brother of murdered exchange student Meredith Kercher has told Sky News her family may never know whether more than one person was involved in her killing. Lyle Kercher's comments follow Italy's top criminal court's explanation for why the convictions of Amanda Knox and Rafaelle Soecito were overturned this year.

Nearly eight years on from the year-old's murder in Perugia, Italy, judges said there were "stunning flaws" in the case against Miss Knox and Mr Sollecito during their ruling on Monday. Mr Kercher said: "While one can understand these as reason for such a decision, it does seem at odds with the apparent DNA evidence we had understood always linked the defendants to the scene.

He said he had not had time to study the court's explanation in full, because his copy was in Italian and needed to be translated, but he added: "Though the inference at the time was there was more than one attacker, whether the man who is in prison is the sole perpetrator will probably never be truly known.

Queen will attend Remembrance Sunday service at Cenotaph this weekend. Rudy Guede, originally from Ivory Coast, was convicted of the murder and is serving a year sentence, but police always maintained that he did not act alone and both Miss Knox and Mr Sollecito were later arrested and convicted.

Two years later the pair - who have always insisted on their innocence - were acquitted, but a hearing in January reinstated the convictions only for the higher court to overturn the verdict again in March this year. Now the Court of Cassation has published its reasons for the final not guilty decision, criticising glaring errors in the police investigation and saying there was an absolute lack of DNA traces from either Miss Knox, now 28, or Mr Sollecito, 31, in the room where Miss Kercher was murdered or on her body.