Rafaello Sollecito, who was cleared from the charges on the murder of a British student plans to sue for wrongly imprisonment. The Italian national is seeking a compensation payment for the damages.
According to the Guardian, Raffaele Sollecito, 32 years old along with his former American girlfriend, Amanda Knox had been facing 20 years in jail for the death of Meredith Kercher, a British student however, both were cleared last March by the Highest Court in Italy. Sollecito is seeking compensation of €516,000 for the wrongful imprisonment. A court in Tuscany will be considering the compensation request.
The two were found guilty on the murder in 2007 and in 2011 they were release on appeal after they were cleared. Mirror reported, Knox returned to Seattle and started her new life after her released. She graduated in Creative Writing and wrote a memoir which reportedly she spent over £2million.
Giulia Bongiorno, Sollecito's lawyer and among the most popular lawyer in Italy filed the compensation demand at Florence court of appeal. Francesco Sollecito, Raffaele's father said, "No-one and nothing can give Raffaele back what he lost in those four years spent in a cell. It cannot be recovered." His family said they needed to recover the money they spent for the investigations and the trials.
Rudy Guede is now the convicted killer on the murder. However, he claimed on an interview, that Knox was there in the house at the time of the murder. According to Telegraph, Sollecito were arrested in November 2007 within the days of Ketcher's murder.The victim's body was discovered naked on the floor of her bedroom at the house that she shared with Knox in the Umbrian hill town of Perugia.
Meredith Ketcher is a British student studying under the Erasmus exchange programme. Her throat was cut with her lifeless body in the pool of her own blood. Convicted on the crime, Rudy Guede is facing charges of sexually assaulting and murdering the British undergraduate and is serving a 16-year sentence.
