'Amanda Knox's boyfriend was stripped and abused by police ', book claims In "Honour Bound - My Journey to Hell and Back with Amanda Knox," he says he and his then girlfriend were the victims of a gross miscarriage of justice. He was repeatedly abused, both physically and verbally, by police as they tried to force a confession out of him. "A (policeman) leaned into me and hissed, "If you try to get up and leave, I'll beat you into a pulp and kill you. I'll leave you in a pool of blood. Another interrogator slapped him and told him his father was "a fine outstanding person.... (who) doesn't deserve a son like you, someone who would stand by a whore like Amanda." Mr Sollecito, who has been promoting his book in the United States, said both he and Miss Knox were threatened with 30 years in prison by police, who were convinced of their guilt. Following one questioning session, he was ordered to strip naked at Perugia police station. ""Take off everything," I was told, "even your underpants." I had already been shoeless most of the night but this was a whole new level of humiliation. I was made to walk around in front of a female doctor. I felt so ashamed I didn't even look up at her."" The suspicions of the police were heightened when they found that Mr Sollecito habitually carried a pocket knife. When they searched his apartment, they picked out a kitchen knife from a drawer at random, claiming it was the weapon used to cut Miss Kercher's throat, he writes. A detective "pulled out the first knife that came to hand, a large chopping knife with an eight inch blade."Will this knife do?" Finzi asked Chiacchiera. "Yes, yes, it's great," came the answer. He and Miss Knox were now the principal suspects in the case and were taken to Capanne jail, 10 miles out of Perugia. They would remain behind bars for four years - until October last year, when their initial convictions for murder were overturned on appeal. He said arriving at Capanne jail was "like landing on an alien planet" and reminded him of the famous quote from Dante - "Abandon hope ye who enter here." Despite having no prior convictions, he was put in solitary confinement for six months, in a cell that he described as "a dark, damp, dirty hole" with a sponge mattress for a bed and "a toilet caked in grime." He was later transferred to the prison's "protected section," reserved for sex offenders. This was a whole new form of pressure from the authorities. Nothing was said explicitly but the subtext seemed clear - if you don't tell us what we want to hear, you can take your chances with the perverts and child molesters and transsexuals and see how you like that instead. He said he had always trusted the police - his sister was an officer in the Carabinieri - but that faith was shattered by his experiences. He accuses the chief prosecutor in the case, Giuliano Mignini, of being obsessed with Satanism, Masonry, devil-worshipping rituals and a previous case involving a serial killer known as the Monster of Florence. It was the prosecutor who came up with the theory that Miss Knox, Mr Sollecito and a small-time local drug dealer, Rudy Guede, murdered Miss Kercher as part of a twisted sex game at the hillside villa in Perugia's Via della Pergola. From the beginning, the notion that a burglar could have broken in, come across Meredith unexpectedly, and killed her in a panic - the simplest and most plausible explanation of the scene at Via della Pergola - could not have been further from (his) mind. In an interview on ABC television in the US on Tuesday, Mr Sollecito said he was still in touch with Miss Knox, now 25, who is back in her native Seattle. "We Skype sometimes," he told ABC's Katie Couric. We exchange emails. He said Miss Knox "sang a song for me during our last Skype conversation."