Original sentence: Both students have appealed their cases and a new trial began in December 2010 which is currently underway.He is now serving a sentence of 16 years.His conviction was upheld during two appeals.In separate proceedings, an American flatmate of Kercher, Amanda Knox, a student from the University of Washington in Seattle, and her Italian boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito, also a student, were convicted of the crime on 4 December 2009.Rudy Hermann Guede, an unemployed resident of Perugia, was convicted on 28 October 2008 of the sexual assault and murder of Kercher.Some of her property was missing
Edited sentence: Guede is serving a sentence of 16 years, while Sollecito and Knox are appealing their convictions for 25 and 26 year sentences, respectively.Rudy Hermann Guede, a resident of Perugia, Raffaele Sollecito, an Italian student, and Amanda Knox, an American student who shared a flat with Kercher, were convicted of the sexual assault and murder of Kercher.Sollecito and Knox have appealed their cases and a new trial began in December 2010.Some of her property was found to be missing