article_snippet.sent: Mr Sollecito and he former lover, American Amanda Knox were both acquitted in late March ending a legal process which lasted more than seven years and saw both serve four years in prison.
article_snippet.sent: Mr Sollecito (pictured) and his former lover, American Amanda Knox were both acquitted in late March ending a legal process which lasted more than seven years .
article_snippet.sent: Seattle-born Miss Knox, 27, who was Ms Kercher's flat-mate, and Mr Sollecito, spent four years in jail for the murder but were acquitted on appeal in 2011.
article_snippet.sent: his described the ruling as an 'end to the nightmare' Amanda Knox (pictured) vowed to return to Italy just two days after being cleared of murdering British student Meredith Kercher .
article_snippet.sent: Both Raffaele Sollecito (right) flanked by his lawyer Giulia Bongiorno and Knox were imprisoned shortly after Kercher's body was discovered with 47 separate wounds on November 1, 2007.
article_snippet.sent: Both Sollecito and Knox were originally convicted of murder and sexual assault in December 2009 and sentenced to 26 and 25 years in jail respectively.
article_snippet.sent: After Both Sollecito and Knox served four years in prison a court in Perugia threw out Both Sollecito and Knox convictions and declared Both Sollecito and Knox innocent.
article_snippet.sent: A view of the house where British student Kercher was killed is understood Knox will go back to Italy to write a book about the country's legal system .
article_snippet.sent: Knox and Sollecito were pictured embracing as police searched the house where British student Kercher was killed immediately after Kercher's death .
article_snippet.sent: Knox returned to the US before another U-turn in the sensational case in January last year when a court in Florence reinstated the original 2009 conviction and increased Knox's sentence to 28-and-a-half years.
highlights_snippet.sent: Italian, 31, and American Amanda Knox, 27, both acquitted two weeks ago .
  