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Who Is Joran Andreas Petrus Sloot?

Joran Andreas Petrus van der Sloot is a Dutch convicted murderer who killed Stephany Flores Ramírez in Lima, Peru, in 2010. He is also the prime suspect in the disappearance of Natalee Holloway in 2005.

In a move Joran Van der Sloot's lawyer says has nothing to do with potential extradition to the US, the Dutch murderer is set to marry his pregnant girlfriend in a Peruvian prison.


Marriage of Joran Van Der Sloot

There have been rumors of marriage before, but the lawyer tells the AP that legal formalities have been completed and the 26-year-old will marry Peruvian national Leydi Figueroa Uceda in the prison chapel within a few weeks.

He says the pair met when she was selling goods inside the prison where Van der Sloot is serving 28 years for murder, and she is now five months pregnant.

He was very happy about getting married, since his girlfriend is pregnant, he wants his child to be born to a married couple and he's anxiously awaiting the day he can get married.

Van der Sloot has long been suspected of murdering American student Natalee Holloway in 2005 and when his sentence is up, Peru has agreed to send him to the US to face charges that he extorted money from her mother. The lawyer says the Dutchman isn't trying to dodge US authorities with the wedding. "He's getting married because he's in love and is having a child," he says. "There are no hidden agendas."


Pregnancy of Leydi Figueroa Uceda

A newspaper said that Joran van der Sloot, a Dutch man who is serving a 28-year-sentence for murdering a young Peruvian woman, has impregnated a woman named Leydi Figueroa Uceda while imprisoned in Lima.

The Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf cited Van der Sloot's lawyer Maximo Altez as saying the pregnancy is past its third month, and Van der Sloot himself as having confirmed the news in a telephone call.

"A test has proved" the pregnancy, the paper quoted Van der Sloot as saying.
The woman, identified by the paper only as "Leidi," was said to have become pregnant during an unsupervised visit with Van der Sloot. It was not clear whether that is allowed or possible under Peruvian prison rules.

Media in Peru last year identified a woman named Leydi Figueroa Uceda as Van der Sloot's girlfriend, and said they had conceived a son together, but she denied it. Altez then described the pair as "friends."

In De Telegraaf Van der Sloot said "Leidi" uses the birth control pill but had apparently forgotten to take it and she would not have an abortion due to her Catholic faith. He said he didn't have DNA proof the child is his, but he believes it to be.


Interpretation of Van Der Sloot

Van der Sloot is a self-described liar, having repeatedly confessed to killing U.S. teenager Natalee Holloway, who disappeared in 2005, and later retracting the confessions. He is the last person known to have seen her alive.

He was convicted for the 2010 robbing and killing of Stephany Flores in a Lima hotel room after meeting her in a nearby casino. He is wanted by authorities in the U.S. for allegedly extorting money from the Holloway family on the promise of revealing the location of her body.

He could resist extradition to the United States, where is wanted in the Holloway case, if he obtains Peruvian nationality. That would be a possibility if he becomes the father of a Peruvian child or if he marries a Peruvian citizen.

Van der Sloot is appealing his conviction.


Written by - Sharmistha Pratap

Edited by - Gunika Manchanda