Amanda Knox and Sollecito guilty of Kercher murder
Miss Kercher had been studying Italian on an exchange programmeAmerican student Amanda Knox and her former boyfriend have been found guilty by an Italian court of the murder of British student Meredith Kercher.
Knox, 22, bowed her head and burst into tears as she was jailed for 26 years for murder and sexual violence.
Italian Raffaele Sollecito, 25, looked impassive as he was given 25 years.
Miss Kercher, 21, a Leeds University student from Surrey, was found with her throat slit in Perugia in 2007. Knox had denied killing her in a sex game.
But prosecutors said Sollecito held her down while Knox stabbed her to death. We have obtained truth and justice for this tragic event
Knox buried her head in her lawyer's chest, sobbing, after the judge read the verdict to a hushed court.
Miss Kercher's family lawyer, Francesco Maresca, said they were satisfied with the verdict.
He said: "They got the justice they were expecting. We got what we were hoping for.
"With what we got with the Guede sentence last year, we have obtained truth and justice for this tragic event."
Knox's family, meanwhile, left court in tears, fighting through the crowds of journalists gathered outside. Her father, Curt, told the BBC "we will fight on".
The court ordered Knox and Sollecito to pay one million euros to Miss Kercher's mother and the same amount to her father.
Her siblings would each receive 800,000 euros, the court ruled.
The pair committed the killing with small-time drug dealer Rudy Guede, 22, who was jailed for 30 years for murder and sexual violence last October.
Miss Kercher's semi-naked body was found in a pool of blood with her throat slit in her room.
She had been sharing a house with Knox, also a student, on her year abroad in the Umbrian hilltop town.
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