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Kercher murder: Police enforce Sollecito travel ban | |
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Italian police have visited Raffaele Sollecito to enforce a travel ban imposed when a court reinstated his guilty verdict for the murder of Briton Meredith Kercher in 2007. | |
Police found Sollecito between Udine and Tarvisio near the Slovenian and Austrian borders, Rai News said. | |
Sollecito was given 25 years and US ex-girlfriend Amanda Knox 28 years and six months in Thursday's ruling. | Sollecito was given 25 years and US ex-girlfriend Amanda Knox 28 years and six months in Thursday's ruling. |
The Kercher family lawyer said that justice had been done. | The Kercher family lawyer said that justice had been done. |
The travel ban was part of the verdict handed down on Sollecito by the court in Florence on Thursday. | |
The court noted that there was a "real and actual the danger that Sollecito could escape Italian justice". | |
Sollecito had been in the courtroom earlier in the day on Thursday but was not there for the ruling. | |
Sollecito's lawyer, Luca Maori, said his client had heard the verdict on TV and looked "annihilated". | |
Lawyers for both Knox and Sollecito have said they will appeal to the supreme Court of Cassation. |