Caught on camera: Foxy Knoxy at murder flat on night Meredith was killed

12 April 2012

Murder suspect Amanda Knox was caught on camera entering the apartment where a British student was murdered the same night, it emerged today.

The CCTV footage contradicts Knox's claim that she was at the house of her 24-year-old boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito.

The news came as a horrifying photograph of the room where Meredith was murdered emerged.

The grainy image, below, photocopied from a police crime scene photo, shows a body under a duvet on the floor next to the bed.

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Horror: This grainy image, a photocopy of a police crime scene photograph, shows the crime scene

Amanda Knox, 20, is accused of killing flatmate Meredith Kercher (right) in a horrific sex attack

Police have labelled reference points around the bedroom with numbers and letters.

Sollecito and Knox are together accused of murder and sexual violence against 21-year-old Meredith Kercher, who was studying in Italy on an exchange from Leeds University.

Cameras overlooking the house in Perugia have captured the 20-year-old American student, known as Foxy Knoxy, at 8.43pm on 1 November dressed in a light-coloured skirt and top.

A post-mortem examination found Meredith, from Coulsdon in Surrey, was killed at about 11pm. She had her throat cut and was left to bleed to death in agony in a locked room.

The damning revelation that Knox was captured on CCTV entering the flat that night comes after the student, who shared the flat with Meredith, dramatically changed her story once again, telling her mother Edda during a prison visit that she had not been at the murder scene.

Today a police source in Perugia, said: "It will be interesting to see what she has to say when we show her the footage."

Last week Knox claimed she had been at the apartment and had covered her ears as she heard Meredith screaming from her bedroom, where she had gone with the last of the three accused, Congolese bar owner Diya "Patrick" Lumumba, 44.

Her leaked testimony named Lumumba as the killer and Knox said that he had had sex with Meredith before she was killed.

Over the weekend Knox - who police had described as a compulsive liar - told her mother: "I've said some stupid things and made some wrong declarations but I want to tell you I was not at the house."

The 20-year-old's protestation of innocence to her mother follows her "confession" to police last week that she was in the kitchen while Meredith was being killed in her bedroom.

Knox, told how she covered her ears with her hands to block out the English girl's dying screams.

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Foxy Knoxy: Was studying languages and creative writing

Police in the Italian town of Perugia believe she was a key part of the murder on November 1, holding Miss Kercher down as she endured a terrifying sex attack before having her throat cut.

Party-loving Knox, who was studying languages and creative writing, changed her story as Meredith's body was flown home to the UK.

Her father John said at his home in Croydon, Surrey: "Now at least we can make the appropriate arrangements and we hope to have a funeral in a couple of weeks."

Mr Kercher said his daughter, who had been in Italy for three months, told him Knox had been entertaining men within a week of arriving in the country.

His last conversation with Meredith was just hours before her death.

Mr Kercher said: "When I heard an English girl had been murdered in Perugia I tried to call her but I couldn't get through at first and then it just rang with no answer."

Knox and two other suspects, her boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito, 23, and Congolese bar owner Patrick Diya Lumumba, are being held in jail, where the American is reported to be keeping a diary.

She was visited at the weekend by her divorced parents Edda Mellas and William Knox.

Mrs Mellas, a teacher, said: "She told me she was not even there, where that poor girl was killed.

"Amanda is innocent of this and is devastated by the death of her friend, she is completely distraught.

"We are not able to say anything else and are just letting the process follow its course."

Knox was said by her lawyer Luciano Ghirga to have told her mother "she had said some stupid things and made some wrong declarations".

Mr Ghirga said: "My client is saying that she is sticking to her first version of events, that she was never there. She is confident she will be released soon.

Knox has been moved out of solitary confinement at the Capanne Prison, on the outskirts of Perugia, and is sharing a small cell with another prisoner. It has a wardrobe, bathroom and kitchen area.

The American has been heard crying and has been seen writing furiously in a notebook.

Yesterday she was refused permission to attend Mass. Prison chaplain Father Saulo Scarabottoli said: "I visited her in her cell and explained to her the true sense of life and how values should be tied to moral behaviour.

"I told her that wild nights were a tragedy and she seemed to be listening very attentively to every word I said.

"She appeared to be a little overcome with her situation and seemed to be up and down. She didn't make any form of confession to me."

As the investigation continued, it was reported police are hunting a third man who may have fled to France.

Detectives are also due to question a Swiss university professor, who Lumumba claims was drinking in his Le Chic bar at the time of the killing.

Married father-of-one Lumumba has told police that a Senegalese friend called Usi and two parties of Belgian students were also in the bar. Usi, a porter, said he went to help fix a drink dispenser and saw Lumumba talking to the professor.

But witnesses have told police the bar was shut at 7pm and no till receipts were found to have been issued before 10.29pm.

Miss Kercher is thought to have died at between 10 and 11pm.

It is understood a signal trace from one of Lumumba's mobile phones places him near the scene of the killing.

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