Rome court this week ruled that Rudy Guede, the 36-year-old Ivorian national convicted of murdering British exchange student Meredith Kercher in Perugia in 2007, must spend the next 12 months under a “special surveillance” regime after allegedly abusing his former girlfriend.
The authorities had already put a restraining order on Guede in December after his ex filed the complaint, meaning he was banned from being within 500 metres of her and had to wear an electronic bracelet.
In addition to this, he is now be banned from having any contact with the woman, including via social media, he will not be allowed to be outside his home between 21:30 and 6:30 and will have to inform police any time he leaves his city of residence, Viterbo.
Guede was released from jail in November 2021 after serving 13 years of a 16-year-term for the November 1, 2007 murder of the Leeds University student in the Perugia flat she shared with American Amanda Knox.
Guede is the only person definitively convicted of killing Kercher in the Umbrian capital after the Italian supreme court acquitted two other former suspects, Knox and her Italian ex-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito, overturning an earlier conviction.
The Ivorian, who has maintained his innocence, made an unsuccessful bid for his case to be reviewed after Knox and Sollecito were cleared.
Guede’s DNA was found inside Kercher and all over the murder scene.
Knox and Sollecito’s initial conviction was based on DNA evidence that was later ruled unsafe, leading to their final acquittal.
Guede said he went into a “state of shock” after finding Kercher dead following a visit to the bathroom after meeting her on the night she was killed.
He fled the country and was arrested in Germany a few days after the murder.
Via ANSA
