Raffaele Sollecito
Now 25, the urologist's son from Bari was studying at the University of Perugia when he met Knox only days before Kercher's murder. Knox was only his second girlfriend and the prosecution labelled him "Amanda dependent". He collected both knives and unsharpened swords. A photograph on his blog showed him wrapped in lavatory paper and brandishing a meat cleaver. He has insisted that he would not harm a fly, saying at the trial: "I'm not a violent person and the thought of hurting somebody has never crossed my mind."
Rudy Guede
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Abandoned by his mother soon after his birth in the Ivory Coast, he was bought to Italy by his father, a labourer from whom he became estranged as a teenager. He then drifted into drug dealing and petty crime. He claimed that he had consensual sex with Kercher and that she was killed while he was in the toilet, the music on his iPod drowning her screams. Now 22, he was sentenced to 30 years for her murder last October after a fast-track trial. He is appealing the verdict.