Meredith assault evidence 'lacking'

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Giancarlo Umani Ronchi spoke to reporters before entering the Perugia courthouse for a hearing conducted by a judge on evidence in the killing of the 21-year-old.

Although prosecutors have raised the possibility that the south London student was sexually assaulted, Mr Ronchi said that he and the other court-appointed experts found no evidence to confirm that.

Miss Kercher was found dead on November 2 in a pool of blood in her bedroom of a rented house in Perugia, a medieval Umbrian university town with a large foreign student population.

Miss Kercher's mother and a brother and a sister made no comment to reporters as they arrived for the closed-door hearing.

Three suspects have been jailed for months in the case, although no formal charges have been lodged against them.

Only one of the suspects attended the hearing. Police hustled handcuffed suspect Raffaele Sollecito, 24, an Italian student whose girlfriend at the time was one of Miss Kercher's flatmates, into the courthouse.

Sollecito's former girlfriend, American Amanda Knox, 20, of Seattle, and a third suspect in the case, Ivory Coast national Rudy Hermann Guede, stayed in jail.

Guede, 21, has told investigators he was in the Miss Kercher's room the night she died but said that he did not kill her. The other suspects in the case also deny any wrongdoing.

Judges have ruled that the suspects could be held for up to a year while the case is investigated.