Meredith Kercher’s killer Rudy Guede walks free from jail 14 years after Brit student’s savage death

THE man convicted of killing British university student Meredith Kercher in 2008 walks free – just 14 years after her savage death. Rudy Guede, 34, was released early from prison for good behaviour after he was due to complete his sentence on January 4. Getty Images - GettyRudy Guede has finished his sentence 45 days early[/caption] AlamyBrit Meredith was murdered in Italy in 2007[/caption] Drifter Guede served just 14 years of his initial 16-year jail sentence after he was convicted in 2008. “It’s the conclusive moment of a very sad affair,” Fabrizio Ballarini, his lawyer, told the Italian press. “First thoughts must go to the victim and her family. Rudy has undergone an excellent course of reeducation.” In December Guede was released from prison and was to finish out his sentence doing community service for charities in Viterbo, near Rome. Meredith, 21, from Coulsdon, Surrey was found half-naked with her throat cut in Perugia, Italy, in September 2007. Her housemate Amanda Knox, 33, and Knox’s then-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito, 36, were also convicted of murder but were released in 2011 following an appeal. Most read in THE SUN FIRE TRAGEDY Twins, 4, burned alive in mum’s arms alongside dad in bus blaze that killed 45 TRAGIC END Tributes to couple, 33 & 36, killed after ‘parking row’ as 2 men, 34 & 67, held GRIEVING VINNIE Vinnie Jones' wife Tanya left £150k when she died but had not made a will PRINCE OF PEACE Prince William told aides to stay out of family wars after media attacks PAEDO MUM Mum who had sex with schoolboy, 15, after luring him to her home is jailed GRIM FIND Couple killed while kids slept upstairs after ‘row over parking’ as men held Knox slammed the early release of Ruede claiming she was also a victim of him as she had carried the burden of his crime. “I continue to this day to be shocked that he is the forgotten killer,” Knox said on Good Morning America last year. “The one who was quietly tucked away, convicted of a lesser crime, and does not have to live with the burden of forever being associated with Meredith’s death. “I do know that many, many people have suffered a great deal because of what he did.” Last year The Sun on Sunday revealed how Guede was on day release and working at a local library as we pictured him smirking while cycling to and from jail. Guede was originally given 16 years but will serve the final years doing community service for local charities after his lawyer struck a deal with judges. In September 2007 Meredith had just moved to Perugia in central Italy where she was studying at the city’s prestigious university. She was murdered two months later. Guede is the only person handed a final conviction in connection to the case.