The door was kicked in by a friend of Romanelli, and the body of Kercher, a British student on exchange from the University of Leeds who had been stabbed and died from exsanguination due to neck wounds, was discovered on the floor.
Knife wounds leading to blood loss and suffocation Meredith Susanna Cara Kercher (28 December 1985  1 November 2007) was a British student on exchange from the University of Leeds who was murdered at the age of 21 in Perugia, Italy. Instead, Romanelli's male friend forced the door open at around 1:15 p.m., and the body of Kercher was found inside, lying on the floor, covered by a duvet. 
