Dutchman Joran van der Sloot will be sentenced on Friday for the murder of Peruvian woman Stephany Flores after admitting killing her to a court in Lima on Wednesday.

After his client pleaded guilty to the 2010 murder, Van der Sloot’s lawyer argued that the killing was triggered by fallout from the Natalee Holloway case.
Van der Sloot was arrested twice in connection with the US teenager’s disappearance on the Caribbean holiday island of Aruba in May 2006, when she was 18 and he was 17.
Stress
The ‘persecution’ suffered by Van der Sloot ‘scarred him psychologically with a kind of post-traumatic stress disorder’, defence attorney Jose Jimenez told the three female judges, news agency AP reports.
‘I truly am sorry for this act. I feel very bad,’ AP quoted the 24-year-old as saying in broken Spanish.
He hopes to get a reduced sentence in return for the confession, the Dutchman told the court.
Disappearance
Van der Sloot has made two alleged confessions about what happened to Holloway at the end of her holiday on the Caribbean island of Aruba where he lived. In 2010, he told a German tv show she fell over the balcony of a friend’s home.
In July 2010, Van der Sloot was indicted on extortion charges by the grand federal jury in Alabama in connection with the disappearance.
Van der Sloot was charged with demanding €25,000 from the mother of the missing girl in return for information about where her body is located.
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