Amanda Knox retrial: Prosecutor calls for 30-year sentence By Hada Messia and Laura Smith-Spark, CNN November 26, 2013 -- Updated 1435 GMT (2235 HKT) A prosecutor calls for Amanda Knox to be given a 30-year sentence at her retrial Knox and her former boyfriend are accused in the 2007 killing of a British student Their convictions were overturned in 2011, but a higher court last year ordered a retrial Rome (CNN) -- Amanda Knox should receive a 30-year sentence for the 2007 killing of British exchange student Meredith Kercher, an Italian prosecutor said at her retrial Tuesday. Prosecutor Alessandro Crini also called for a 26-year sentence for Knox's former boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito. The retrial began at the end of September in the Italian city of Florence. Sollecito and Knox were convicted in 2009 of killing Kercher, 21, who was found stabbed in November 2007 in the villa that she and Knox rented in the central Italian university town of Perugia. But Italy's Supreme Court decided last year to retry the case, saying that the jury that acquitted them didn't consider all the evidence and that discrepancies in testimony needed to be answered. Giving his closing remarks, Crini said both defendants should be convicted and handed a 26-year sentence for homicide, with an additional four years for Knox for slander. Knox has not been in court for the retrial. She returned to her hometown of Seattle after her acquittal and has been living there since. CNN's Hada Messia reported from Rome and Laura Smith-Spark wrote in London.