ROME, June 12 (UPI) -- An imprisoned Italian gangster says his brother killed a British college student whose U.S. roommate and two other men have been convicted of killing.
Luciano Aviello described the slaying to Amanda Knox's lawyers, who videotaped the interview, CNN reported. Aviello said his brother told him he and an Albanian man broke into the house Knox and Meredith Kercher shared in Perugia and killed Kercher when she started screaming and fighting them.
Aviello, who lived nearby at the time of the November 2007 slaying, said he tried several times to get authorities to listen to his story. Knox, a University of Washington student from Seattle who was studying in Perugia, her former boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito, and Ivory Coast drifter Rudy Guede were convicted of killing Kercher in what prosecutors said was a drug-fueled sex game.
Aviello said his brother came to his house in Perugia after the killing.
"When he came to my house he had a bloodstained jacket on and was carrying a flick knife. He said he had broken into a house and killed a girl and then he had run away," Aviello told Knox's lawyers.
The lawyers say they have to find corroboration for Aviello's story. He says he buried some of the evidence.
Aviello is serving a 17-year sentence because of criminal ties to the Camorra, the Neapolitan mob.
Knox is serving a 26-year prison term, Sollecito 25 years and Guede 16 years.
