Meaning of Joran van der Sloot known after verdict: ‘I hit her with a concrete block’ | Abroad

Joran van der Sloot received Wednesday in Alabama 20 years in prison for extorting Natalee Holloway’s motherthe American teenager who disappeared without a trace in Aruba in 2005 after an evening with Joran, then 17.

Van der Sloot, now 36, made a deal with the US justice system: he received a relatively favorable sentence in the extortion case in exchange for a guilty plea and information about Natalee’s disappearance. In court documents that have now been made public, Van der Sloot describes what allegedly happened. He hoped for sex, he describes.

Natalee wanted to be dropped off at her hotel, but Joran has his friends Deepak and Satish stop further down the road. “So we could walk to her hotel and maybe I would get another chance,” he describes, according to the transcript of a conversation in which he admitted guilt. His lawyer asks him the questions.

Deepak and Satish drive away. “I walk with Natalee along the beach,” said Van der Sloot. “I’ll find a spot before we get to the Marriott Hotel where I’ll put her down. We lie together in the sand and we start kissing each other. I start groping her and she says no.” Van der Sloot insists, he describes. “I still keep touching her. And she knees me in the crotch.”

Van der Sloot says that he then got up and kicked her ‘extremely hard’ in the face. “She’s lying there unconscious, possibly even dead, but certainly unconscious. And next to her I see a large concrete block on the beach.” It is a hollow concrete block as is often used in the construction of walls, according to Van der Sloot.

“I take it and completely smash her head in,” he describes. “Even in the dark I can see that her face has collapsed.” Van der Sloot states that he was afraid, did not know what to do, and dragged her body into the ocean. “I walk into the ocean up to about my knees and push her into the sea.” Then he would have walked home.

In front of hidden cameras of Peter R. de Vries, Van der Sloot said in 2008 that Natalee had become unwell and died. A friend had then dumped her in the sea, he told a friend who worked with De Vries, without knowing he was being filmed. Later he told other stories, for example that the body was hidden in the foundation of a house.

The judge in the extortion case assumes that Van der Sloot is now telling the truth. “In separate incidents, years apart, you brutally murdered two beautiful women who refused your sexual advances,” she said in court. In 2010, Van der Sloot murdered Stephany Flores in Peru.

He will be in a Peruvian cell until at least 2045 for that murder, plus drug trafficking from prison. His American prison sentence now runs concurrently with the years he still has to serve in Peru. In the coming days he will be flown back to Peru from Alabama.