Rudy Hermann Guede, 21 has been jailed for 30 years in Italy for murdering British exchange student Meredith Kercher.
He was found guilty after 'fast track' trial behind closed doors. Miss Kercher's brother John called the verdict "overwhelming".
Miss Kercher, 21, from south London, was found dead at a house she shared in Perugia on 2 November 2007.
Judge Paolo Micheli also ruled that Raffaele Sollecito, 24, and Amanda Knox, 21, should also face a murder trial.
Leeds University student Miss Kercher, from Coulsdon, had been in the Umbrian town as part of her European Studies degree.
Her partially-clothed body was found under a duvet in her bedroom, which had been locked from the inside. Her throat had been cut.
Prosecutors claimed she was killed as part of a bungled sex game involving Guede, her housemate Miss Knox, from Seattle, and the American's ex-boyfriend Mr Sollecito, from Bari, southern Italy.
Lurid headlines in many newspapers picked up the story that group
sex was added to the mix of
drugs and the free-wheeling lives of young International students in Italy. The chief magistrate at a hearing held to review evidence was quoted in the newspaper saying that Knox and Sollecito wished to "experience extreme sensations, intense sexual relations which break up the monotony of everyday life."
The implication was that Kercher had been pressured to participate in sexual activity with them. This is a view disputed by defence lawyers and others critical of
police investigation of the case. Many of these critics say that the group
sex theories are obsessive public fantasies.
