text: Amanda fa l'occhiolino a Raffaele durante il processo d'Appello ( foto 
   
   Raffaele Sollecito parla in esclusiva a Oggi: «Certo che andrò a trovare Amanda a Seattle. È stata lei a invitarmi. Io ho accettato con gioia. E non è detto che aspetti Natale. Potrei farlo anche prima. In qualunque momento. Ho voglia di rivederla, di parlare, di guardarla negli occhi». 
   
   PRIME DICHIARAZIONI IN ASSOLUTO – Il settimanale Oggi, in edicola da mercoledì, pubblica alcune confidenze del ragazzo pugliese assolto in secondo grado dall’accusa di avere ucciso, insieme con la fidanzatina americana, la povera Meredith Kercher. Queste sono le sue prime dichiarazioni in assoluto dopo la scarcerazione. 
   
   «ABBIAMO BISOGNO L’UN DELL’ALTRA» – Dice Raffaele : «Ci telefoniamo o ci scriviamo tutti i giorni, abbiamo bisogno l’uno dell’altra sia per tentare di capire cosa è successo sia per guardare avanti, verso un futuro che sembrava spezzato per sempre e che invece possiamo ancora costruire. Abbiamo tante cose da dirci, dopo aver passato quattro anni in un girone infernale che ci ha stritolato, ci ha procurato sofferenze indicibili, ci ha rovinato la vita». 
   
   IL MISTERO DEL CAPPOTTO - Sollecito durante l’intervista a Oggi indossa un cappotto grigio foderato di pelo. Lo stesso che aveva addosso Amanda Knox il 3 novembre 2007, quando la polizia scientifica compiva rilievi nella villetta di via della Pergola, Amanda e Raffaele aspettavano sull’uscio. Lei aveva freddo, lui si sfilò il giaccone, glielo mise, la abbracciò. Raffaele ha voluto indossare lo stesso giaccone durante il suo incontro con il nostro giornalista perché quel capo d’abbigliamento è finito nell’impianto probatorio e “racconta” il pressapochismo con cui sono state condotte le indagini. 
   
   CHE CONFUSIONE! - Marco Quintavalle, proprietario di un minimarket a Perugia, disse che, il giorno dopo l’omicidio di Meredith, Amanda si presentò la mattina presto nel suo negozio, a comprare candeggina (per lavar via le tracce, era il sottinteso). Il Pm Mignini gli chiese com’era vestita la Knox. Quintavalle non esitò: «Con un cappotto grigio», disse. Forse il negoziante, che si presentò a deporre un anno dopo la morte di Mez, aveva visto la foto del 3 novembre, e fece confusione, mischiò ricordi e ritagli di giornale. Perché Amanda in realtà non ha mai avuto cappotti: «Li odia», dice Raffaele. ||||| 'We need each other... I really want to see her': Foxy Knoxy's Italian lover breaks his silence to reveal their 'four years in circle of hell' 
   
   Raffaele Sollecito said the pair speak to each other on the phone every day to 'try and understand what happened' 
   
   
   
   He is already planning a trip to Seattle to see his former girlfriend 
   
   He says: 'I really want to see her again and look into her eyes' 
   
   Freed Amanda Knox is in regular contact with her former boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito, he has revealed in an interview. 
   
   The couple were sensationally cleared of murdering and sexually assaulting student Meredith Kercher, 21, who was found semi-naked and with her throat cut in her bedroom of the house she shared with Knox, 24. 
   
   She and Sollecito, 27, had been seeing each other for a week before the brutal murder and initially they had been sentenced to 26 and 25 years respectively but they were released on appeal earlier this month. 
   
   Contact: Amanda Knox, pictured in Seattle last week, is in regular contact with her former boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito, left, he has revealed in an interview. He is planning to visit her in Seattle before Christmas 
   
   
   
   Breaking his silence for the first time in an interview with glossy Italian weekly Oggi, computer studies graduate Sollecito said: 'We need each other - we speak to each other on the phone and write to each other every day.' 
   
   
   
   Then, speaking of his invitation to visit Knox in her hometown of Seattle, Sollecito added: 'I will certainly go and see Amanda. She asked me over and I accepted with pleasure and there is no saying I will wait until Christmas. 
   
   'I could go earlier - I could go at any moment. I really want to see her again, to speak with her and look into her eyes. 
   
   Knox and Sollecito were photographed kissing shortly after the death of Meredith Kercher 
   
   'We need to speak and write to each other to try and understand what happened to us and to look forward to a future that appeared broken forever but instead we can still build on. 
   
   'We have so many things to say to each other. We spent four years in a circle of hell, we suffered unspeakably and it ruined our lives.' 
   
   Knox has kept a low profile since she was freed and is said to be negotiating a money-spinning TV interview deal with an American TV network which could make her $1 million - with the potential of earning up to ten times that amount as well. 
   
   Since returning to Seattle she has been seen out and about with friends but generally keeping a low profile and spending time with her family. 
   
   
   
   The couple pictured in 2007. Sollecito said: 'We have so many things to say to each other. We spent four years in a circle of hell, we suffered unspeakably and it ruined our lives.' 
   
   She was pictured out in downtown Seattle earlier this month with best friend Madison Paxton, who stayed close to her while she was in prison, and days earlier taking a drive with her step-father Chris Mellas. 
   
   
   
   She wrote in prison of how she longed to see her former boyfriend, David Johnsrud, and he was one of the first to pay her a visit on her return, although her father Curt stressed their relationship was now one simply of ‘friendship’. 
   
   Asked how his daughter had changed since she was jailed, Mr Knox said in an interview earlier this month that she was little different, other than occasionally slipping into speaking Italian and being less trusting of authority after her experience with Italian police. ‘It’s almost like she hasn’t lost a step with the family, which is nice to see,’ he said. 
   
   
   
   Freed: Knox addresses supporters and the media at Seattle airport supported by her mother Edda Mellas following her sensational release from prison 
   
   He said his daughter had to remain largely indoors for the moment, describing it as ‘a different version of jail’ but said she had at least been able to lie down in the grass – something she had longed for while in prison. 
   
   Mr Knox also revealed his daughter was being shadowed by a bodyguard and the family has been inundated with hate mail and threatening phone calls. 
   
   Knox and Sollecito, from Bisceglie near Bari, were originally found guilty in 2009 of the murder which had taken two years previously in the Italian hilltop town of Perugia. 
   
   However the appeal heard how the original evidence used to convict them was flawed and contaminated and they were freed after an independent forensic report ordered by the judge condemned the forensic investigation. 
   
   Jailed: Ivory Coast drifter Rudy Guede, 24, (left) was convicted of the murder and sexual assault of Meredith Kercher (right) after a fast-track trial in 2008 
   
   Key to the case was a 30cm kitchen knife found in Sollecito's apartment and on which was said to be DNA from Knox on the handle and that of Meredith on the blade. 
   
   But the report said the amount on the knife was so low is should not be used to convict Knox - although they confirmed it was her DNA on the handle but she argued she had used it to cook with. 
   
   DNA from Sollecito which was found on Meredith's bloodied bra clasp was also dismissed as it emerged it had been left in the murder scene for six weeks before being collected and leaving it open to contamination. 
   
   Prosecutors in Perugia have said they will appeal the decision but they will have to wait until the judge's written ruling on the verdict is published sometime in the New Year. 
   
   Meredith from Coulsdon, Surrey, was a Leeds University student and was in Perugia for her degree course and she had only been in Italy for two months before she was murdered in November 2007. 
   
   Ivory Coast drifter Rudy Guede, 24, was convicted of murder and sexual assault after a fast track trial in 2008 and originally sentenced to 30 years but this was later reduced to 16 on appeal. 
   
   
   
  
target: – Amanda Knox's Italian ex-boyfriend has spoken out for the first time since their murder convictions were overturned, saying "we need each other," and that they talk every day and he cannot wait to see her again, reports the Daily Mail. "We spent four years in a circle of hell, we suffered unspeakably, and it ruined our lives," said Raffaele Sollecito. "I really want to see her again, to speak with her and look into her eyes." Sollecito said that the two write and talk, "to try and understand what happened to us," and that he has been invited to spend Christmas at the Knox home in Seattle. "I will certainly go and see Amanda." They each "look forward to a future that appeared broken forever but instead we can still build on," he says. Italian speakers can check out the original interview in Oggi magazine.