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STORY: At a news conference in Perugia, the family of murder victim Meredith Kercher say their sister and daughter "has been forgotten."
Stephanie Kercher said her sister had been "hugely forgotten" in coverage of the appeal launched by American student Amanda Knox and her Italian ex-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito, adding: "It is very difficult to keep her memory alive in all of this."
Answering reporters' questions in a filled conference room, Meredith's brother Lyle said it was difficult to "think of forgiveness," and although the murder took place four years ago, his sister's murder is still "very raw."
Meredith's mother Arline refused to say whether she believed Knox killed her daughter, adding: "You have to go by the evidence because there is nothing else. What I want, what they want doesn't come into it."
Meredith, or "Mez" to her friends, was on a year-long Erasmus exchange program in the hilltop university town of Perugia when her half-naked body was found in a pool of blood in the apartment she shared with American Amanda Knox. The popular Leeds University student was 21.
