Italy DNA - Lawyer for Knox's Italian boyfriend Sollecito gives presser
NAME: ITA DNA 20071115Ix
TAPE: EF07/1382
IN_TIME: 10:13:05:15
DURATION: 00:01:46:19
SOURCES: SKY Italia/AP Television
DATELINE: Perugia, 15 Nov 2007/FILE
RESTRICTIONS: see script
SHOTLIST
Sky Italia - No Access Italy
15 November, 2007
1. Luca Maori, lawyer defending Raffele Sollecito, Amanda Knox's boyfriend, in his office
2. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Luca Maori, defence lawyer:
"The knife in question is not the jack-knife found on Sollecito (Raffele Sollecito, Amanda Knox's boyfriend) when he was taken into custody, nor is it the one found in a drawer in his room. It is a kitchen knife found in Sollecito's living quarters which were shared with Amanda Knox."
AP Television
3 November, 2007
3. Amanda Knox walking by police car near house where Meredith Kercher was found dead
4. Pan left from street to house where Meredith Kercher was found dead
Sky Italia - No Access Italy
15 November, 2007
5. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Luca Maori, defence lawyer:
"The cloth found by forensic police revealed DNA traces relating only to Amanda (Knox) and Sollecito (Raffele Sollecito, Amanda Knox's boyfriend) himself, and in any case to belonging to the victim. It is worth stating that the cloth, as Sollecito has always claimed, was only used to clean the kitchen of his house."
AP Television
3 November, 2007
6. Various exterior shots of forensic staff at work on crime scene
Sky Italia - No Access Italy
15 November, 2007
7. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Luca Maori, Defence Lawyer:
"As of today, November 15th, 2007, forensics have not yet completed working neither on the jack-knife, nor on the Nike shoes which were also confiscated as evidence."
AP Television
11 November, 2007
8. Various of Perugia jail
STORYLINE
A lawyer for Raffaele Sollecito, the Italian boyfriend of Amanda Knox who shared a flat with the murdered British student Meredith Kercher, refuted on Thursday claims that forensic tests linked his client to the murder.
Earlier Italian news agencies reported that Italian police had found DNA traces from Kercher and her American flatmate, Amanda Marie Knox, on a knife belonging to Sollecito.
"The knife in question is not the jack-knife found on Sollecito (Raffele Sollecito, Amanda Knox's boyfriend) when he was taken into custody, nor is it the one found in a drawer in his room," said Luca Maori, defence lawyer.
He added: "It is a kitchen knife found in Sollecito's living quarters which were shared with Amanda Knox."
Maori also discounted other DNA evidence reportedly found by investigators.
"The cloth found by forensic police revealed DNA traces relating only to Amanda (Knox) and Sollecito (Raffele Sollecito, Amanda Knox's boyfriend) himself, and in any case to belonging to the victim. It is worth stating that the cloth, as Sollecito has always claimed, was only used to clean the kitchen of his house."
Kercher, aged 21, was found with her throat cut in her apartment in the Italian city of Perugia earlier this month. Italian prosecutors believe she was murdered after refusing to take part in extreme sex.
Three people, Knox, aged 20, from Seattle, Sollecito, aged 23; and Congolese immigrant Diya "Patrick" Lumumba, aged 38, were remanded in custody on Friday as suspects in her death.
All three have denied involvement.
It's reported that Kercher, a Leeds University student who had travelled to Perugia in August to study at the city's University for Foreigners, was stabbed in the neck in her bed as she resisted a sexual assault.
She was found dead in a pool of blood when police visited the apartment on 2 November, 2007, to return Kercher's cell phone, found in a neighbour's garden.
Her body was flown to Heathrow Airport, London, on an Alitalia flight from Rome on Sunday. She was from Coulsdon, Surrey, in southern England.