**The jury in the trial of two students accused of killing Briton Meredith Kercher in Italy has been sent out to consider its verdict.**American Amanda Knox, 22, and her Italian ex-lover Raffaele Sollecito, 25, deny murder and sexual violence.
Miss Kercher, 21, a Leeds University student from Coulsdon, Surrey, was found with her throat slit in her Perugia room in November 2007.
Rudy Guede, 22, from Ivory Coast, is already serving 30 years for the crime.
He has launched an appeal after he was convicted in a separate trial.
Prosecutors say Miss Kercher was murdered in a drug-fuelled sexual assault.
On Thursday, Miss Knox - who has been the subject of intense media interest - told the jury in Italian she should not be branded a killer.
“The first thing to say is that I am not calm,” she said.
"I am afraid of being defined as something I am not and by actions that are not mine.
“I’m afraid of having the mask of a murderer forced on to my skin.”
She added she was “confused, sad, frustrated” about the two years she had already been in jail awaiting trial.