Bizarre Twist in Amanda Knox Case

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In Perugia,  Italy,  the deposition of a Sicilian bricklayer serving a life sentence in the same prison with Rudy Guede has added a bizarre development in the Amanda Knox case.  

According to a report from Seattle Pi,  on  Friday attorneys for Raffaele Sollecito, Amanda Knox's former boyfriend, provided this deposition as  a new piece of evidence in the slaying of British student Meredith Kercher. 

In the statement the fellow convict claims Guede confided in him that Knox and Sollecito were innocent and that the murder was committed by a friend of Guede's who had gone to Kercher's house for a threesome.

Mario Alessi, 38, is currently serving a life sentence in connection with the brutal kidnapping and murder of  a 2-year-old boy from Parma , Tommasso Onofri  in 2006.   The Bologna Court of Appeals received a request for authorization which was made by Sollecito's attorneys.  They also sent their legal assistants to videotape Alessi's statement in Viterbo, where he is housed in the same sex crimes unit.  

Alessi claims he has written several letters to Sollecito's attorney, Giulia Bongiorno, because he wanted to convey what he had heard from Rudy Guede.  He also says in the statement that 3 fellow-inmates will uphold his story.  

Buongiorno is a high-profile Sicilian attorney and parliamentarian who heads a governmental justice commission.  She was told that Guede had said on several occasions that Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito had nothing to do with the murder. 

Alessi gives a detailed description of the scene  with Kercher getting wounded in the struggle.  While Guede tried to stem the bleeding, the friend said "we'd better finish her off or we'll both rot in prison," according to Alessi's account.

Less than credible?  

Guede has  denied ever speaking to Alessi about these matters.  Moreover,   Alessi's appeal of his life sentence was denied, so he is not credible,  and is said to be trying to get attention out of desperation.  He has also given misleading information to authorities in the past.  

In this time frame,   Amanda Knox has looked at the 427 page opinion offered on the ruling in her verdict.  

The opinion, however, deviated from the prosecution's theory of Amanda being the ring leader in a pre-planned sex game, and instead offered a scenario of a spontaneous counter gone out of control,  press say.