Amanda Knox and accused former lover Raffaele Sollecito reunited in Italy

The two people acquitted of the murder of Meredith Kercher have reunited in Gubbio, the town they were planning to visit 15 years ago on the day the British exchange student was found dead.

Amanda Knox now lives with her family on Vashon Island in Washington state and campaigns for victims of judicial errors. Picture: AAP

The two people acquitted of the murder of Meredith Kercher have reunited in Gubbio, the Umbrian town they were planning to visit 15 years ago on the day the British exchange student was found dead.

British university student Meredith Kercher.

Amanda Knox and her former lover Raffaele Sollecito were pictured smiling together during what Sollecito described as a “bitter-sweet” reunion.

“It was bitter-sweet to go back as we were supposed to go there in such different circumstances, but it was just nice for us to be able to talk about something that wasn’t the case,” Sollecito told People magazine.

Kercher, 21, of Coulsdon, south London, was sharing a flat in Perugia with Knox where she was found stabbed to death on November 2, 2007, following what appeared to have been a sexual assault.

Knox, now 35, and Sollecito, 38, were twice convicted of the murder and acquitted during an eight-year legal process that concluded with their definitive acquittal by the supreme court in 2015. The court said the investigation was undermined by errors.

Knox was accompanied on the trip by family members, including her husband, Christopher Robinson, and baby daughter Eureka Muse.

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A third suspect, Rudy Guede, a drifter from the Ivory Coast, was convicted of murder and served 15 years of a 16-year prison sentence. He works in a criminology library and as a waiter in the central Italian town of Viterbo. Last week Guede, 35, denied killing Kercher. “In my sentences it is written: in collaboration with Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito and none of the judges considers me materially responsible,” Guede told the Corriere della Sera. “Then they are both acquitted. So I ask you: who did I collaborate with?”

Rudy Guede, a drifter from the Ivory Coast, was convicted of the murder of Meredith Kercher and served 15 years of a 16-year prison sentence. Picture: AFP

Guede said he had begun a consensual sexual encounter with Kercher and found her bleeding to death when he returned from the lavatory.

Knox lives with her family on Vashon Island in Washington state and campaigns for victims of judicial errors. She told Oggi, an Italian magazine, she was grateful to have been acquitted but would “always be ‘the girl who was accused of murder’ ”.

The Times