(June 15) -- Amanda Knox, the American exchange student on trial in Italy in the slaying of her roommate, has been sending love notes to her ex-boyfriend, who is her co-defendant in the case, Britain's Sky News reported Monday.
Knox, 21, from Seattle, and her ex-boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito, 25, are accused of killing Meredith Kercher, 21, in November 2007 in the university town of Perugia. Authorities suspect Kercher, a British student, was stabbed to death while being forced to take part in a sex game with Knox and Sollecito.
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In a Feb. 18 note, Knox writes about her and Sollecito's relationship.
"We could have really had something special, it's true. Although we still had (and still have) much to learn about each other, we clicked, we made each other happy, we were open to each other. ... You know what would be wonderful? Do you think they would let us hug each other when the judge absolves us? I'm tired of not being allowed to look at you."
In another, from Feb. 14, she describes her life in jail.
"The thing about women's prison is there about 70 of us altogether at the maximum and we all live on the same floor, so all of us are mixed together regardless of the length or type of conviction. ... In my very own cell I'm living with a drug addict, a thief and an accomplice to murder."
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Sky News didn't quote any letters from Sollecito, but he may be writing back to Knox. One of her notes makes a reference to letters from him and says they have given her "a sense of peace."
Knox and Sollecito are charged with murder and sexual violence in Kercher's death. Their trial opened in January. Knox took the witness stand for the first time on Friday, testifying that she saw Kercher hours before the killing, and then went to Sollecito's to spend the night, The Associated Press reported.
Sollecito has said he was at his apartment the night of the killing, and can't remember whether Knox spent all or part of it with him. If convicted, they could face life sentences in prison.
A third suspect, Rudy Hermann Guede, was convicted in Kercher's death and got a 30-year sentence. He denies a role in the crime and has filed an appeal.
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