Rudy Hermann Guede arrested by British police in student killing

November 20, 2007

Rudy Hermann Guede has been arrested in Germany by British police as a suspect in the killing of a 21-year-old student in Italy.

Italian police confirmed Tuesday that Guede, 20, of Ivory Coast, was identified after police found a bloody fingerprint on a pillow at the scene of the crime.

Italian police said that Guede had been apprehended this morning but refused to confirm where in Germany he had been stopped. According to media reports, the suspect was arrested in Wiesbaden, near Frankfurt, in western Germany.

Guede was in the same circle of friends as the three suspects already in custody, a source in Perugia's prosecutor's office said, adding that all four are now considered prime suspects in the murder.

Investigators found the body of Meredith Kercher half-naked with a stab wound to the neck Nov. 2 at her home in Perugia, where she was studying as an exchange student at the city's university.

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