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| Van der Sloot pleads guilty to Peru killing | Van der Sloot pleads guilty to Peru killing |
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| Dutch citizen Joran van der Sloot has pleaded guilty to killing a 21-year-old Peruvian woman at his trial in Lima. | Dutch citizen Joran van der Sloot has pleaded guilty to killing a 21-year-old Peruvian woman at his trial in Lima. |
| Mr Van der Sloot went on trial last week for the murder of Stephany Flores, whom he met at a Lima casino. | Mr Van der Sloot went on trial last week for the murder of Stephany Flores, whom he met at a Lima casino. |
| She was found dead in a hotel in the Peruvian capital on 30 May 2010. | She was found dead in a hotel in the Peruvian capital on 30 May 2010. |
| Mr Van der Sloot is a suspect in the disappearance in 2005 of US student Natalee Holloway, 18, on the Caribbean island of Aruba. Her body has never been found. | |
| Stephany Flores was murdered five years to the day after Natalee Holloway was last seen. | |
| The prosecution in Lima accused Mr Van der Sloot of killing Ms Flores "with cruelty and ferocity" in a hotel after they met while playing poker. | |
| By pleading guilty, the Dutchman should get certain benefits under Peruvian law, such as a reduced sentence. The three judges in the trial have 48 hours to pass sentence. | |
| Mr Van der Sloot had told police that he killed Ms Flores after she found details on his laptop of his alleged connection to Natalee Holloway's disappearance. | |
| He was arrested but never charged in that case, which was the subject of wide public interest in the US and elsewhere. |