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He later described the ruling as an ‘end to the nightmare’ telling a press conference that he needed ‘time to heal’ and ‘time to breathe this fresh air’. 

Both Knox and Sollecito are reportedly planning to seek compensation for time wrongly spent in prison.

Mr Sollecito (pictured) and his former lover, American Amanda Knox were both acquitted in late March ending a legal process which lasted more than seven years

Out and about: Raffaele Sollecito’s shopping trip comes a week after he was seen looking at a £100,000 BMW at a dealership in Rome

Both Knox and Sollecito (right) are reportedly planning to seek compensation for time wrongly spent in prison

While no figures have been revealed, compensation for such cases regularly run into seven figure sums.

Sollecito’s lawyer Giulia Bongiorno revealed her client would wait for Italy’s top court to give the reasoning behind the acquittal, expected later this year, before taking a decision.

Knox’s lawyer, confirmed Miss Knox will ‘be seeking compensation for wrongful imprisonment,’ according to The Telegraph. 

Arline Kercher, Meredith’s mother, described the acquittal ruling as ‘odd’.

Raffaele Sollecito (pictured left with a blonde companion) described his acquittal last month as an ‘end to the nightmare’

The 31-year-old told a press conference last month that he needed ‘time to heal’ and ‘time to breathe this fresh air’

 Raffaele Sollecito is pictured with a companion leaving a clothes shop in the Italian capital, Rome

She said: ‘(I am) a bit surprised, and very shocked, but that is about it at the moment. They have been convicted twice so it’s a bit odd that it should change now.’  

Her daughter, who was 21 and from Coulsdon, Surrey, was sexually assaulted and stabbed to death in her bedroom in 2007 while studying in Perugia, Italy.

Seattle-born Miss Knox, 27, who was Ms Kercher’s flat-mate, and Mr Sollecito, spent four years in jail for the murder but were acquitted on appeal in 2011.

But Italy’s highest court last month overturned the 2014 convictions and declined to order another trial.

Raffaele Sollecito (right) flanked by his lawyer Giulia Bongiorno, talks to the media during a press conference in Rome. He described the ruling as an ‘end to the nightmare’

Amanda Knox (pictured) vowed to return to Italy just two days after being cleared of murdering British student Meredith Kercher

Mererith Kercher (pictured) from Coulsdon, Surrey, was sexually assaulted and stabbed to death in her bedroom in 2007 while studying in Perugia, Italy

The decision by the Supreme Court of Cassation is the final ruling in the seven-year case and definitively ends the gruelling legal battle. The pair always maintained their innocence.

Both Sollecito and Knox were imprisoned shortly after Kercher’s body was discovered with 47 separate wounds on November 1, 2007.

They were originally convicted of murder and sexual assault in December 2009 and sentenced to 26 and 25 years in jail respectively.

After they served four years in prison a court in Perugia threw out their convictions and declared them innocent.

A view of the house where British student Kercher was killed. It is understood Knox will go back to Italy to write a book about the country’s legal system

Knox and Sollecito were pictured embracing as police searched the house immediately after Kercher’s death

Knox returned to the US before another U-turn in the sensational case in January last year when a court in Florence reinstated the original 2009 conviction and increased Knox’s sentence to 28-and-a-half years.

Judge Gennaro Marasca read the decision to finally acquit the pair in late March after a judicial body had deliberated for ten hours.

Rudy Guede is now the only person to be successfully convicted of the murder.

The unemployed basketball player was found guilty in October 2008 and was convicted to 16 years after his footprints were discovered in Kercher’s blood.

The court will publish its reasons for last month’s decision within 90 days.

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