British murder victim who died while studying abroad in Perugia, Italy. Her American roommate, Amanda Knox, was imprisoned for the crime, along with Raffaele Sollecito (Knox's boyfriend) and Rudy Guede.
She was a student of Italian and politics at the University of Leeds.
She dreamed of someday working for the European Union.
She was born in South London to a British journalist father and an Indian-born homemaker mother. She had three older siblings.
Kercher's roommate, Amanda Knox, was imprisoned for several years and then acquitted. In early 2014, she was re-sentenced to nearly three decades in an Italian prison. Whether Knox actually had any involvement in the crime remains a mystery.