Sat | May 9, 2026

Complaint: Van der Sloot's rights violated

Published:Friday | June 25, 2010 | 12:00 AM
In a June 4, 2010 file photo Dutch citizen Joran Van der Sloot is escorted by police officers outside a Peruvian police station, near the border with Chile in Tacna, Peru. - AP

LIMA, Peru (AP):

Dutch murder defendant Joran van der Sloot has filed a complaint with Peru's police alleging interrogators violated his rights when he confessed to killing a 21-year-old Lima woman.

Van der Sloot's lawyer said yesterday that the complaint has been filed against Peru's chief homicide detective and investigating agents.

It seeks to invalidate the confession by arguing that Van der Sloot's attorney at the time was state-appointed. A previous legal motion made similar arguments.

Van der Sloot is recanting his confession in the May 30 killing of Stephany Flores in his Lima hotel room. He remains the lone suspect in the 2005 disappearance of United States teen Natalee Holloway on Aruba.

He told a Dutch newspaper he confessed under duress.