Lawyers acting for
computer engineer Raffaele Sollecito have presented a request
for 516,000 euros in compensation for the nearly four years he
spent in jail before being cleared of murdering British student
Meredith Kercher in 2007, his father Francesco said Tuesday.
"Nothing and nobody can give us back what Raffaele lost in
those nearly four years spent in a cell," Francesco Sollecito
told ANSA.
The compensation request was presented to the Florence
Appeal Court.
"It was the minimum that we could ask in the light of what
happened," Francesco Sollecito said.
"We had to make this request also because of the heavy
expenses we had during the investigation and the different
trials".
Sollecito and his ex girlfriend, American Amanda Knox,
Kercher's former flat mate, were cleared of the murder by
Italy's supreme court last year on appeal after twice being
convicted.
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