THE parents of Meredith Kercher died within four months of each other, her hearbroken family have revealed.
It comes just days after pictures emerged of former suspects Amanda Knox and ex-lover Raffaele Sollecito smiling together at a reunion in Italy were branded as “poor taste”.
Meredith, 21, a student at Leeds University, was found dead in her bedroom in the apartment she shared with Knox in the Italian town of Perugia on November 2, 2007.
In a statement marking the 15th anniversary of Meredith’s murder it emerged that her parents, John and Arline, had died within a few months of each other in 2020.
The tribute to Meredith, who was known by the nickname Mez, by her surviving siblings said: “Every anniversary of Meredith’s death gives us pause for thought, but of course as with anyone who has lost a loved one – especially in such tragic circumstances – it does not take an anniversary to remember them; it’s something you carry with you every day.