Inmates ask that Knox stop singing

PERUGIA , Italy, Feb. 11 (UPI) -- Cellmates of the U.S. student suspected in the death of another student in Italy have asked prison officials to get the woman to stop singing, officials said.

Inmates have complained that Amanda Knox of Seattle sings "Let It Be" all day at the top of her voice, The Times of London reported Monday. One jailer said the singing "drives you mad."

The prison chaplain at Perugia, Italy, said officials refused a request from the 20-year-old for a guitar so she could accompany herself as she sang. The priest said the song had a "spiritual dimension," adding that Knox was receiving religious instruction and reading the Bible, the British newspaper said.

Knox, her former Italian boyfriend Raffaelle Sollecito and Rudy Hermann Guede, an Ivory Coast immigrant who holds Italian nationality, remain in prison in Perugia pending charges in the death of British student Meredith Kercher last November. Italian law states they can be held for up to a year before trial.