THE father of murdered student Meredith Kercher has relived the agonising moment when he travelled to Italy to identify his daughter's body.
John Kercher travelled to Perugia with his ex-wife Arline and their daughter Stephanie to see Miss Kercher's body in the morgue after her violent murder.
In a book about the killing that robbed him of his daughter, Mr Kercher said he was unable to look at his daughter for a final time for fear he would lose his "laughing and happy" final memory of her.
"Nothing can prepare you for what it is like to have to travel to a foreign country to identify the body of your daughter," he wrote.
Six months ago Amanda Knox walked free from prison in Italy, acquitted of the crime.
University of Leeds exchange student Miss Kercher, from Coulsdon in Surrey, was found dead on November 2, 2007 at the house in the Umbrian hilltop city she shared with Knox and others. Drug dealer Rudy Guede was jailed for the murder.
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