Joran van der Sloot, the Dutch citizen who captured global attention for confessing to the long-standing unsolved murder of 18-year-old American Natalee Holloway in 2005, reportedly got injured last week during a violent altercation in a Peruvian prison, according to The New York Post.
According to the paper, two inmates attacked Van der Sloot, who is currently serving a 28-year murder sentence in the country for the 2010 killing of his ex-girlfriend Stefany Flores Ramirez.
Officials from Peru’s National Penitentiary Institute have stated that van der Sloot will not be disciplined for the fight as he was not the one who initiated it.
According to an NPI official, there are many individuals who wish to see him dead.
According to reports, he sustained bruises and lacerations during the altercation and was subsequently released back to the general population of Challapalca Prison.
Van der Sloot’s attorney had previously criticized the conditions inside the facility, describing it as “the worst prison in the world.”
In a shocking revelation last year, Joran van der Sloot finally confessed to the murder of Natalee Holloway, almost twenty years after she went missing during a school trip to Aruba.
During his guilty plea in the US, he made a shocking revelation. He admitted to attempting to extort money from Holloway’s mother in exchange for providing information about the location of the Alabama teenager’s remains.
Joran van der Sloot received a 20-year prison sentence in the US for committing extortion and wire fraud. This sentence ran simultaneously with the charges against him in Peru.
In 2005, Holloway was last seen leaving a bar with van der Sloot, who was a student at an international school in Aruba at the time.
According to Holloway’s mother, he confessed to murdering the teenager with a cinderblock after she turned down his advances. He is set to be released from prison in 2045.
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