A Rome court on Friday ruled that Rudy
Guede, the 36-year-old Ivorian national convicted of murdering
British exchange student Meredith Kercher in Perugia in 2007,
must spend the next 12 months under a "special surveillance"
regime after allegedly abusing his former girlfriend.
The authorities had already put a restraining order on Guede in
December after his ex filed the complaint, meaning he was banned
from being within 500 metres of her and had to wear an
electronic bracelet.
In addition to this, he is now be banned from having any contact
with the woman, including via social media, he will not be
allowed to be outside his home between 21:30 and 6:30 and will
have to inform police any time he leaves his city of residence,
Viterbo.
Guede was released from jail in November 2021 after serving 13
years of a 16-year-term for the November 1, 2007 murder of the
Leeds University student in the Perugia flat she shared with
American Amanda Knox.
Guede is the only person definitively convicted of killing
Kercher in the Umbrian capital after the Italian supreme court
acquitted two other former suspects, Knox and her Italian
ex-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito, overturning an earlier
conviction.
The Ivorian, who has maintained his innocence, made an
unsuccessful bid for his case to be reviewed after Knox and
Sollecito were cleared.
Guede's DNA was found inside Kercher and all over the murder
scene.
Knox and Sollecito's initial conviction was based on DNA
evidence that was later ruled unsafe, leading to their final
acquittal.
Guede said he went into a "state of shock" after finding Kercher
dead following a visit to the bathroom after meeting her on the
night she was killed.
He fled the country and was arrested in Germany a few days after
the murder.
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