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3rd suspect in killing back in Italy

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Published: Dec. 6, 2007 at 1:54 PM

PERUGIA, Italy, Dec. 6 (UPI) -- A suspect in the killing of a British student arrived Thursday in Italy from Germany to face a murder charge.

Rudy Hermann Guede, a citizen of Ivory Coast, was escorted by Interpol officers on a flight from Germany to Rome and met by Italian police at the airport, CNN reported.

Guede is one of three people charged with killing Meredith Kercher, who was found stabbed in the house she shared with three other students in Perugia. The others include Amanda Knox, a U.S. student who also shared the house, and her boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito.

Knox and Sollecito are being held without bail in Perugia.

Guede was arrested in Germany when he was caught riding a train without a ticket. He did not fight extradition.

He has admitted he was in the house when Kercher was killed and had sex with her. But he claims he was in the bathroom when an intruder broke in and that he tried to fight off the killer, explaining his bloody handprint.

Topics: Amanda Knox, Meredith Kercher, Raffaele Sollecito, Rudy Hermann Guede
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