PERUGIA, Italy – An American student charged with the murder of her British roommate showed no distress and was cuddling with her boyfriend hours after the slaying, a friend of the victim testified on Friday.
Robyn Carmel Butterworth told the packed courtroom in this Umbrian university town that she was among several students waiting to talk to officers in Perugia's police station shortly after Meredith Kercher's bloodied body was found.
Students Amanda Knox, from Seattle, and Raffaele Sollecito, an Italian who was her boyfriend at the time of the November 2007 slaying, are being tried on charges of murder and sexual violence.