A Rome court on Friday ruled that RudyGuede, the 36-year-old Ivorian national convicted of murdering British exchange student Meredith Kercher in Perugia in 2007, must spend the next 12 months under a "special surveillance" regime after allegedly abusing his former girlfriend.
The authorities had already put a restraining order on Guede in December after her ex filed the complaint, meaning he was banned from being within 500 meters of her and had to wear an electronic bracelet.
In addition to this, he is now banned from having any contact with the woman, including via social media, he will not be allowed to be outside his home between 9.30pm and 6.30am and will have to inform police any time he leaves his city of residence, Viterbo.
Guede was released from prison in November 2021 after serving 13years of a 16-year-term for the November 1, 2007 murder of theLeeds University student in the Perugia flat she shared withAmerican Amanda Knox.
Guede is the only person definitively convicted of killing Kercher in the Umbrian capital after the Italian supreme court acquired two other former suspects, Knox and her Italian ex-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito, overturning an earlier conviction.
The Ivorian, who has maintained his innocence of him, made an unsuccessful bid for his case to be reviewed after Knox and Sollecito were cleared.
Guede's DNA was found inside Kercher and all over the murderscene.
Knox and Sollecito's initial conviction was based on DNA evidence that was later ruled unsafe, leading to their final acquisition.
Guede said he went into a "state of shock" after finding Kercherdead following a visit to the bathroom after meeting her on the night she was killed.
He fled the country and was arrested in Germany a few days after the murder.
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