Amanda Knox’s ex-fiance Raffaele Sollecito announces he is engaged again to his new girlfriend 

Amanda Knox’s ex-fiance Raffaele Sollecito announces he is engaged again to his new girlfriend

  • Raffaele Sollecito announced his engagement to Andreea Burtea on Instagram
  • Pair were pictured on social media in the snow-capped Chamois resort in Italy
  • Alongside the image the 35-year-old wrote caption saying, ‘with my bride to be’ 
  • Sollecito arrested for murder along with ex-girlfriend, Amanda Knox, in 2007
  • After twice being convicted of killing Meredith Kercher both were acquitted 

Raffaele Sollecito, the ex-fiance of Amanda Knox has got engaged to his girlfriend, he announced today. 

He made the announcement by posting a picture on Instagram of the couple skiing in the Chamois resort in Valle D’Aosta, Italy.

Alongside the image he wrote a caption saying, ‘with my bride to be’, with three heart emojis.

The 35-year-old has posted a series of images of him with the woman, named in Italian media as Andreea Mihaela Burtea, on his social media account.

Amanda Knox’s ex-fiance Raffaele Sollecito announced his engagement to girlfriend Andreea Mihaela Burtea by posting a picture of them in the Chamois ski resort in Italy 

His images show the couple enjoying the sun in Venice as well as snow-capped mountains in Bormio in the Italian Alps as well as her home town of Timisoara in Romania.  

Burtea is aged 22, and so is 13 years younger than Sollecito, according to Italian magazine Donna Glamour.

According to Italian media, the couple met when Burtea decided to text Sollecito after a professor at the Erasmus project in Spain told her to research the Amanda Knox case.

Sollecito was arrested along with his former girlfriend, Amanda Knox, for the murder of British student, Meredith Kercher, in Perugia, Italy, in 2007.

Andreea Burtea with Raffaele Sollecito in Timisoara in Romania. The pair announced their engagement today via social media

Andreea Burtea with Raffaele Sollecito in Timisoara in Romania. The pair announced their engagement today via social media 

He was twice convicted alongside her before Italy’s highest court found the pair not guilty. Ms Knox was also freed on appeal.

Sollecito has also written a book about the murder and their subsequent legal woes.

At the time, Sollecito said the murder was ‘a tragedy that has destroyed my life’. 

Rudy Guede, 33, is now serving life after being separately convicted of killing Ms Kercher.

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