AP – FILE -- In a June 4, 2010 file photo Dutch citizen Joran van der Sloot is escorted by police officers … According to police investigators in Lima, van der Sloot, 22, told them that he had met Stephany Flores Ramirez, 21, at a casino and ended up with her in a room he was renting in a low-budget hotel in Miraflores, one of Lima's swankier neighborhoods. After Flores and he awoke early on May 30, van der Sloot said that he went out to get coffee and rolls. When he returned, he said Flores was using his laptop. Van der Sloot, according to police sources, said Flores had pulled up information relating to his alleged involvement in the case of Natalee Holloway, a young American who went missing in Aruba in 2005. Van der Sloot, who had been the prime suspect in the Holloway case, said Flores' snooping sent him into a rage. "It was an invasion of my privacy. She had no right," he allegedly told the investigating officers. He said they fought and he beat her repeatedly, breaking her neck.
Rage is a key element in the confession that could conceivably get van der Sloot a lighter sentence. "The confession is part of a strategy to show that the murder was not premeditated to keep the sentence to a minimum," says Luis Lamas Puccio, a well-known criminal lawyer in Lima. Indeed, detectives are furious that van der Sloot's court-appointed lawyer, Rosa Camargo, has "manipulated the case and planted the idea of a crime of passion," in the words of one detective.
In Peru, a crime of passion could lead to a sentence as low as seven years, which could mean that van der Sloot walks in three or four years.This man confesses to killing an innocent woman and could possibly walk in 3 or 4 years!?! If I stole bread from Big Y I think I'd face a longer sentence (I may be exaggerating but you catch my drift...)
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