They were speaking after a court reinstated guilty verdicts against Amanda Knox and Raffaelle Sollecito.

The Italian court sentenced Knox to 28 years and six months, and Sollecito to 25 years, on Thursday, with their lawyers saying they would appeal.

Meredith's family called for Knox to be extradited from the US.

It comes as police visited Raffaele Sollecito to enforce a travel ban. He was found between Udine and Tarvisio near the Slovenian and Austrian borders, Rai News reported.

Stephanie and Lyle Kercher said they now want time to remember Meredith as a family

Meredith's sister Stephanie told a press conference in Florence on Friday: "I think we are still on a journey for the truth and it may be the fact that we don't ever really know what happened that night, which is obviously something we'll have to come to terms with."

She added: "We hope that we are nearer the end so that we can just start to remember Meredith for who she was and draw a line under it, as it were."

Her brother Lyle Kercher said he believed extradition would be appropriate "if someone has been found guilty and convicted of a murder, and if an extradition law exists between those two countries".

Knox has said she will only be extradited to Italy from the US "kicking and screaming".

Meredith Kercher was found dead in her room

Amanda Knox, her face covered, left her parents' home in Seattle after the verdict

Raffaele Sollecito was in court earlier on Thursday but left before the verdicts

Miss Kercher, 21, from Coulsdon in south London, was stabbed to death in the flat she shared with Knox in the college city of Perugia.

Knox and Sollecito, 29, were jailed for her murder in 2009 but the verdicts were overturned in 2011 and the pair were freed.

However, the acquittals were themselves overturned last year by the Court of Cassation, which returned the case to the Florence court.

The Court of Cassation will now hear the defendants' appeals.

In Italy, verdicts are not considered final until they are confirmed, usually by the Court of Cassation.

Legal experts say it is unlikely Italy will request Knox's extradition until then.

A travel ban was imposed on Sollecito as part of the verdict handed down by the court.

He had been in court earlier in the day on Thursday but was not there for the ruling.

Sollecito's lawyer, Luca Maori, said his client had heard the verdict on TV and looked "annihilated".