Meredith was 'cut with two knives - but death caused by suffocation', post-mortem reveals

12 April 2012

Murdered: Student Meredith Kercher

It also suggests that even though the 21-year-old had her throat slit, the cause of death was suffocation, according to leaked reports.

Police have said that Meredith, from Croydon, Surrey, whose body was found in her student house in Perugia in November, may have been killed after a sex game went wrong.

The latest post-mortem was ordered by Judge Claudia Matteini.

Its findings are to be made public next Saturday.

But, according to leaks, the report will say her neck wounds were from two different blades.

The Leeds University exchange student's American flatmate Amanda Knox, 20, Knox's boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito, 24, and Rudy Hermann Guede, 20, are being held in custody.

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