I pray Kercher family will learn truth, says Knox ex-boyfriend

Co-defendants: Sollecito wishes Knox 'happiness'
Nick Pisa12 April 2012

The man cleared of murdering Meredith Kercher in Perugia says he "prays every day" that the family of the language student from Surrey will get "truth and justice".

Breaking his silence for the first time, Raffaele Sollecito also wished his former girlfriend and co-accused Amanda Knox "all the happiness in the world".

Sollecito, 27, and Knox, 24, were freed last month after spending almost four years behind bars in Italy for the sex murder of 21-year-old Miss Kercher from Coulsdon.

Sollecito described how his and Knox's lives had "changed for ever" after "years of suffering" but he said he was adamant that he wanted to help the Kerchers find out what happened so "Meredith's soul could have peace and so the people who love her can have peace as well".

Miss Kercher had been in Perugia for two months as part of her Leeds University degree. When asked about the Kercher family, Sollecito said: "I pray for them every day so the truth can come out. If I was them I would fight as hard as I could to find out the truth and not keep two innocent people in jail.

"The appeal resolved part of the truth, but now it needs to be investigated further to find out all the truth. So I, like them, want justice to uncover what happened."

When asked if he still had feelings towards Knox, Sollecito smiled and tears appeared to well in his eyes as he said: "It's all over between us. I still have a great affection towards her but nothing else. Our love was like a seed that was not allowed to grow because it was brutally stamped on.

"All I want to say is that I wish her all the happiness in the world.

"She has suffered like me and now I just want her to be the happiest woman in the world. We were both victims of a cruel injustice."

Rudy Guede, 20, an Ivory Coast national, is serving 16 years for the murder but investigators believe other people were involved.

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