FLORENCE, Italy (Reuters) - Italian Raffaele Sollecito was not a "puppy" who committed murder out of love for U.S. student Amanda Knox, his lawyer argued Thursday in her concluding defence to charges the pair murdered 21-year-old Meredith Kercher in 2007.
Sollecito, 29, and Knox, 26, were convicted in 2009 of killing the British student, whose half-naked body was found with more than 40 stab wounds and a deep gash in her throat in the apartment she shared with Knox in Perugia, a picturesque town where both were studying as exchange students.
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