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| Three suspects held in Italy in connection with the murder of British student Meredith Kercher are to make a final appeal to be freed from prison. | Three suspects held in Italy in connection with the murder of British student Meredith Kercher are to make a final appeal to be freed from prison. |
| Lawyers for American Amanda Knox, Italian Raffaele Sollecito and Rudy Hermann Guede, from Ivory Coast, will go before Italy's highest court. | Lawyers for American Amanda Knox, Italian Raffaele Sollecito and Rudy Hermann Guede, from Ivory Coast, will go before Italy's highest court. |
| The three have been held since November on suspicion of sexually assaulting and murdering Miss Kercher, 21, in Perugia. | The three have been held since November on suspicion of sexually assaulting and murdering Miss Kercher, 21, in Perugia. |
| All deny involvement in the student's death and they have not been charged. | All deny involvement in the student's death and they have not been charged. |
| They are being held at Capanne Prison, near Perugia, and can be detained for up to a year before trial. | They are being held at Capanne Prison, near Perugia, and can be detained for up to a year before trial. |
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| Miss Kercher, from Coulsdon in Surrey, had been on an exchange year from Leeds University. She was found dead under a duvet in her bedroom on 2 November, with her throat cut. Police said there was evidence of a violent sexual encounter. | |
| Officers have said they they have forensic evidence linking all three suspects to the murder. | |
| At the end of November, lawyers for Miss Knox and Mr Sollecito had appealed against their continued detention, but the court ruled they had to stay in prison. | |
| Mr Guede, 20, was arrested in Germany on 20 November and extradited to Italy in December. Shortly afterwards a court in Perugia ordered that he also remain in prison. | |
| Lawyers will go before judges in a closed hearing at the Corte Suprema di Cassazione in Rome, hoping to overturn the decisions. |