- The 36-year-old is serving a 28-year sentence for the murder of Peruvian student Stefany Flores Ramírez, 21, in 2010.
- van der Sloot was also sentenced to 20 years in Alabama last year after pleading guilty to racketeering and wire fraud.
Natalee Holloway’s murderer, Joran van der Sloot, has been attacked by other inmates in the Peruvian prison.
The 36-year-old is serving a 28-year sentence for the murder of a Peruvian student in 2010. van der Sloot was also sentenced to 20 years in Alabama last year after pleading guilty to racketeering and wire fraud in a plea deal that saw him finally confess to the murder of the missing 18-year-old student.
The Dutch citizen was attacked by two inmates last week while he was in a common area of the prison, where the most dangerous criminals in the country are held, according to reports The New York Post.
Other inmates reportedly tried to join in the beating before guards broke up the group.
Van der Sloot reportedly suffered only bruises and lacerations and received medical attention before being sent back to the general prison population.
Natalee Holloway’s murderer, Joran van der Sloot, has been attacked in Peruvian prison
an der Sloot was also sentenced to 20 years after pleading guilty to racketeering and wire fraud in a plea deal that ultimately led to him confessing to the murder of the missing 18-year-old student.
The Dutch citizen was attacked by two inmates last week while he was in a common area of the prison, where the country’s most dangerous criminals are held.
A spokesperson for Peru’s National Penitentiary Institute (INP) told the Post that the serial killer will not be punished because he did not start the fight.
Van der Sloot’s lawyer, Maximo Altez, told DailyMail.com on Wednesday that he has not been able to confirm that the attack took place.
Altez noted that inmates at the remote prison do not have access to phones and rely on letters to communicate.
Van der Sloot sent a letter to Altez on Sunday and reported nothing out of the ordinary.
The serial killer was also targeted last year before being extradited to Birmingham to face racketeering and wire fraud charges related to his attempt to profit from his connection to the Holloway case.
Last year, van der Sloot admitted to beating Holloway to death on a beach after she rejected his advances and placed her body in the Caribbean.
Five years after the murder, an FBI sting operation recorded the extortion attempt in which van der Sloot demanded $250,000 from Beth Holloway to reveal the location of her daughter’s remains. He accepted $25,000 to reveal the location and asked for the other $225,000 once the remains were recovered.
In an interview conducted by his lawyer, the murderer, who had always denied having murdered Natalee, provided details of the final moments of the teenager’s life.
His sentence for extortion will run concurrently with the prison sentence he is serving for murder in Peru, where he pleaded guilty in 2012 to the murder of Stephany Flores, 21, a business student from a prominent Peruvian family.
Van der Sloot has been moved between Peruvian prisons while serving his 28-year sentence in response to reports that he enjoyed privileges such as television, Internet access and a cell phone and accusations that he threatened to kill a director. Before being extradited to the United States, he was housed in a prison in a remote area of the Andes called Challapalca, 4,600 meters (about 15,090 feet) above sea level.
Holloway disappeared during a high school graduation trip. She was last seen on May 30, 2005, leaving a bar with van der Sloot. A judge eventually declared her dead, but her body was never found.
Before they could be arrested in the extortion case, van der Sloot escaped and moved from Aruba to Peru.