Kercher Murder Suspect ‘on the Run’

A FOURTH suspect wanted by Italian detectives investigating the murder of British exchange student Meredith Kercher was named yesterday. Police believe Rudy Hermann Guede was the fifth person in the student’s flat on the night she was killed, according to reports.

A bloody fingerprint found on Miss Kercher’s pillow is said to have led detectives to Guede, who is thought to have left Perugia for Milan after she died and now to be on the run.

The 21-year-old is originally from the Ivory Coast. Italian press reports said a warrant has been issued for Guede’s arrest.

Miss Kercher, 21, was found with her throat cut in her bedroom in the Italian town of Perugia on November 2.

Imran on hunger strike over judges

JAILED Pakistani opposition politician Imran Khan went on hunger strike yesterday to demand the country’s military ruler restore independent judges fired under a state of emergency.

The former international cricket star was jailed last week after being picked up at a banned rally in the eastern city of Lahore.

He has decided to stop eating or drinking until the Supreme Court justices and other judges from lower courts are given their jobs back, his former wife Jemima Khan said in London.

“He plans to keep it up until the judiciary is restored. He could get very thin,” she said.

Police said they are holding Khan at a prison outside Lahore.

Rescuers try to reach Ukraine miners

AT LEAST 70 coal miners died in Sunday’s underground blast in Ukraine.

Rescuers struggled with flames and fallen rocks trying to reach more than two dozen more still trapped yesterday, a day after the methane explosion 3,300 feet down.

Nearly 360 miners at the Zasyadko mine scrambled to the surface after the accident. One described clambering over the bodies of his co-workers strewn along an underground rail line and stumbling through blinding dust to escape.

Dozens of weeping relatives gathered at the mine’s Soviet-era headquarters, many breaking into sobs as officials announced the names of workers found dead.

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