Knox: Prosecutor Seeks 30-Year Jail Term

A prosecutor has asked a jury to convict Amanda Knox for the murder of Meredith Kercher and sentence her to a total of 30 years.

Prosecutor Alessandro Crini sought 26 years for murder and another four for slander.

Mr Crini also demanded 26 years for Knox's co-defendant, Raffaele Sollecito.

He made the request after two days of closing arguments at the retrial for the brutal murder of Ms Kercher, who was stabbed to death in 2007 in the home she shared with Knox in Perugia.

Meredith Kercher was killed on November 1, 2007

Ms Kercher, 21, was found in a pool of blood in her room, her throat slit.

Knox, who is not attending the trial, and Sollecito, her boyfriend at the time, have always denied wrongdoing. They insist they spent the night of the murder at Sollecito's home.

Knox was sentenced to 26 years in the first trial in 2009, including one year for slander for blaming Ms Kercher's murder on a Congolese-born bar owner.

Sollecito was sentenced to 25 years.

Sollecito told the court weeks ago that he has been living a 'nightmare'

Both defendants were acquitted on appeal in 2011 and released from prison, but then Italy's highest criminal court ordered a retrial.

Knox, an American student who spent four years in jail in Perugia, is back in the US. 

Six years after the killing, and countless hearings later, no clear motive has emerged.

The prosecutors have argued that Ms Kercher was killed in a drug-fuelled sex game gone awry. 

The retrial, being held in Florence, is expected to reach a verdict in January.

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