Rudy Gade, the only person Eventually convicted of murdering British student Meredith Kercher (Meredith Kercher), After completing 13 years of the 16-year sentence, he can be released within the next few days.
Guede’s sentence will end on January 4, but he has asked the magistrate to reduce his sentence by another 45 days.
Guede’s lawyer, Fabrizio Ballarini, said on Monday that the competent magistrate is evaluating the request and if approved, Guede will be released immediately.
“We don’t know when the decision will be made, it may be tomorrow morning, this weekend or early next month,” he added.
Kercher, a 21-year-old student from Coulsdon, Surrey, was murdered in her home in the university city of Perugia in November 2007. Her body was found in her bedroom, partially naked, with multiple stab wounds on her body. She was also sexually assaulted.
Guede was initially sentenced to 30 years in prison after a fast trial in 2008, but Reduced to 16 years after appeal.
The convictions of the other two suspects, Amanda KnoxThe American student who was renting with Kercher and her Italian ex-boyfriend Rafael Solesito were overthrown.
The 35-year-old Gerd received his first master’s degree from Viterbo Prison in 2017 and his master’s degree in 2017. Before the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic, he had been working in the library of the town’s criminology center. After the center closed due to the pandemic, Guede began working as a volunteer for the Catholic charity Caritas. In December 2020, he was entrusted to the social service department to complete his sentence for community service, which means that he does not have to return to prison at night.
Ballarini said: “This is only granted to prisoners who have an active prison course, and he has the necessary conditions to make the request.”
Knox and Sollecito spent four years in prison after being initially convicted of Kercher’s murder. They were acquitted in 2011 and then convicted again in 2014 by the Florence Court of Appeal, which ruled that Kelcher was injured in multiple injuries to prove that Gade could not act alone. The Italian Supreme Court overturned this decision in its final ruling in 2015, Because it described an “astounding flaw” in the investigation that led to the convictions of Knox and Solesito.
