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Former lovers Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito have been found guilty of the murder of British student Meredith Kercher.
American Knox, 22, and Italian Sollecito, 25, killed 21-year-old Miss Kercher in what began as an extreme sex game and ended with Sollecito holding her down while Knox cut her throat with a six-inch kitchen knife.
They committed the killing in Perugia, Italy, with small-time drug dealer Rudy Guede, 22, who was jailed for murder and sexual violence last October for 30 years.
Knox was sentenced to 26 years in prison and Sollecito 25.
The semi-naked body of Leeds University student Miss Kercher, 21, from Coulsdon, Surrey, was found in a pool of blood with her throat slit in her room in Perugia in November 2007.
She had been sharing a house with Knox, who was also a student, on her year abroad in the Umbrian hilltop town.
Prosecutors said Sollecito held her down while Knox stabbed her to death.
Knox's family left court in tears and fought their way through the dense crowd of journalists.
Miss Kercher's family's lawyer, Francesco Maresca, said they were satisfied with the verdict.
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He said: "They got the justice they were expecting. We got what we were hoping for. With what we got, with the Guede sentence last year, we have obtained truth and justice for this tragic event."
