Article: VICTIM OF A SICK FANTASY; Arrest: Raffaele Sollecito poses as a surgeon on website 'Morally innocent': Meredith Kercher, 21, was murdered Story: Amanda Knox wrote about a drug-fuelled rape Under arrest: Patrick Diya Lumumba being led away by police yesterday.

Byline: Beth Hale, Michael Seamark, Colin Fernandez

THE American housemate of murdered exchange student Meredith Kercher hasconfessed to taking part in her killing, Italian police said last night.

Amanda Knox, 20, was said to have 'crumbled' under days of questioning. Policesaid the 21-year-old Briton, found semi-naked with her throat cut, died as shefought off a violent sexual attack.

Knox's Italian boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito, 23, and Congolese musician PatrickDiya Lumumba, 37, have also been arrested.

It was Knox and Sollecito who first alerted police in Perugia on Friday night,claiming they had found blood in a bathroom but could ...

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