Second knife linked to Meredith killling (From Croydon Guardian)

Second knife linked to Meredith killling

8:28am Wednesday 19th December 2007 in

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Italian police claim to have found the murder weapon used in the killing of Coulsdon student Meredith Kercher.

Detectives in Perguia say the small kitchen knife with a round handle was discovered under bushes in the valley near the share house where the 21-year-old exchange student was found semi-naked with her throat cut on November 2.

The knife is to be sent to Rome for forensic testing along with two bloodstained paper tissues found nearby.

It's the second knife linked by police to the killing.

The first allegedly carried traces of Meredith's DNA.

Meredith's funeral was held on Friday.

Her flatmate, American student Amanda Knox, 20, Knox's boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito, 23, and Rudy Hermann Guede, 20, have been arrested on suspicion of sexual assault and murder and are being held in custody.