A Mafia supergrass has claimed that Amanda Knox, her former boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito and Rudy Guede, who are all serving sentences for the 2007 murder of British student Meredith Kercher, are innocent. How does he know this? Because, he says, his brother committed the crime.
Luciano Aviello [41] who is serving a seventeen-year sentence for Camorra [Neapolitan Mafia] activity, says that, at the time of the murder, he was living in Perugia in the same street as Knox and Kercher and his brother, Antonio, was staying with him. On the night of the murder, he continues, Antonio arrived at the house the two were sharing covered in blood. He told his brother that he and a companion had broken into a house to steal some pictures but instead found Meredith Kercher, who started screaming. Antonio said that he stabbed her to stop her screaming and then killed her. According to Luciano his brother asked him to hide the murder weapon - a knife - and a set of keys to the house. This is important because the spring lock on the door of the house was faulty and anyone entering or leaving had to use a key. Kercher’s house keys were never found.
Aviello told Knox’s lawyers that he had written to the court three times during Knox’s trial but that he was never questioned about his claims. Now Knox’s lawyers are preparing to use Aviello’s statement in her appeal.
