Prosecutors² have asked for life imprisonment³ for the pair accused of murdering British student Meredith Kercher in Italy.

公诉人请求判处在意大利谋杀英国学生梅雷迪思·克尔彻的凶手无期徒刑。

Amanda Knox addressed the court in Italian to deny any wrongdoing

Miss Kercher, 21, from Coulsdon, Surrey, was found dead in her bedroom two years ago. Her throat had been cut.

Prosecutor¹ Giuliano Mignini asked a jury in Perugia to convict Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito on charges of murder and sexual violence.

Miss Knox, a US student, and her former Italian boyfriend deny the charges.

The prosecutor argued that Miss Knox, Mr Sollecito and a third man, Rudy Guede, who was convicted in a separate trial killed the British student during a drug-induced sex game.

Guede, 22, was jailed for 30 years for murdering the British student.

Guede, who is originally from Ivory Coast, always denied any wrongdoing and has launched an appeal against（不服而上诉） his conviction.

Miss Knox, addressed the court in Italian, saying that the accusations⁴ against her were "pure fantasy".

"Meredith was my friend, I didn't hate her," she said.

Prosecutors told the court Miss Knox hit the British student's head against a wall, then tried to strangle（勒死，使窒息） her, as Mr Sollecito held her and Guede sexually assaulted her.

Mr Mignini said Miss Knox "harboured hatred⁵" for the Briton and was the driving force behind a drug-fuelled sexual assault against her that became "an unstoppable crescendo⁶（声音渐增） of violence".

In his reconstruction⁷, the prosecutor alleged⁸ that Guede held Miss Kercher down while Mr Sollecito and Miss Knox inflicted⁹（施以，加害） fatal wounds to her neck.

"The murder and the sexual violence were carried out for futile¹⁰（无效的，无用的） reasons. Meredith will never come back," he said.

Police found the Briton's semi-nude body in a pool of blood with her throat cut.

Miss Knox shared a flat in Perugia, central Italy, with Miss Kercher, a Leeds University student who was on an exchange programme.

Mr Sollecito, a 25-year-old Italian, is Miss Knox's former boyfriend.

The American student and her ex-boyfriend both deny allegations of a drug-fuelled sex game.

Miss Knox, who is from Seattle, says she spent the night of the murder at Mr Sollecito's house elsewhere in the Umbrian town.

Mr Sollecito says he was at home working on his computer that night and does not remember whether Miss Knox spent the whole night with him or just part of it.

A verdict（判决） is expected in the first week of December.