Police said Amanda Knox's ex-boyfriend left Italy and drove to Austria while an appeals court deliberated his fate, but he eventually returned to Italy and surrendered his passport following their joint conviction for murdering British student Meredith Kercher. Raffaele Sollecito's travels were revealed the same day that Knox made clear she would never voluntarily return to Italy. Lawyers for the pair have vowed to appeal the conviction, which upheld the 2009 verdict in the murder of Kercher, Knox's roommate in the university town of Perugia.