Dutch murder suspect handed over to Peru police: AFP

The Dutchman suspected in the murder of a Peruvian woman and the disappearance of a US teenager in Aruba five years ago is guaranteed a fair trial in Peru, the country's interior minister said Saturday.The suspect, Joran Van Der Sloot, 22, appeared handcuffed and wearing a bullet-proof vest at the criminal police headquarters in downtown Lima.Van der Sloot was detained in Chile on Thursday, and police handed him over to the Peruvians at the border town of Tacna on Friday.Interior Minister Octavio Salazar thanked the Chileans for promptly arresting the suspect.

A Dutch national linked to a US teenager's disappearance in Aruba five years ago has been captured in Chile and held in a probe into the murder of a Peruvian woman, Chilean police said here.Joran van der Sloot, 22, was stopped in a taxi in Chile after entering the country from Peru on Monday, police said.Peruvian police were searching for him after the death of Stephany Flores Ramirez, 21, the daughter of Peruvian businessman and race car driver Ricardo Flores Chipoco.

Joran van der Sloot, the Dutchman indicted in the murder of a Peruvian woman and prime suspect in the disappearance of an American girl in Aruba, is showing "psychopathic tendencies," a media-quoted medical report said Monday.Van der Sloot, 22, is being held in a maximum security prison in Lima where he was examined by doctors from Peru's Institute of Legal Medicine, who found him to be "impulsive and showing psychopathic tendencies," El Comercio daily said on its website.

The Dutch suspect in the killing of a US teenager on holiday in Aruba five years ago will go before a judge Monday to face questions about the killing of a young Peruvian woman in May.Joran Van der Sloot, who confessed to killing 21-year-old Stephany Flores, found beaten to death in his Lima hotel room, has been held at the Miguel Castro Castro prison since June 11 after confessing to the crime.His Peruvian lawyer Maximo Altez has told local media that Van der Sloot plans to avoid responding to the judge's questions in a bid to invalidate the police investigation.

A Dutchman who is the prime suspect in the disappearance of a US teen in Aruba, has confessed to beating to death a Peruvian race car driver's daughter, police told local media Tuesday.Joran Van der Sloot, 22, told officials that on May 30 he killed 21-year-old Stephany Flores Ramirez in his hotel room here in a fit of rage after she used his laptop without permission, La Republica newspaper reported.

A Peruvian judge has rejected a request by the Dutch suspect in last month's killing of a young woman to retract his murder confession.The lawyer for Joran van der Sloot, 22, claimed that a statement his client made confessing to the crime was made under duress and should be invalidated because it allegedly infringed upon his constitutional rights.But the Lima penal court ruled Friday that the request was "baseless."Van der Sloot is currently being held at the at the maximum-security Miguel Castro Castro prison pending trial.

The Dutch suspect in the May killing of a young woman in Lima was due to appear before a Peruvian judge Monday after he retracted his confession to the crime in a prison cell interview.Joran van der Sloot, the long-time prime suspect in the 2005 disappearance of American teenager Natalee Holloway in Aruba, confessed earlier this month to killing 21-year-old Stephany Flores, who was found beaten to death in his Lima hotel room.

A Dutchman has confessed to the murder of Peruvian woman Stephany Flores Ramirez and could be charged as early as Tuesday, police officials told local media.Joran Van Der Sloot, 22, confessed Monday before a prosecutor and his attorney to the May 30 murder of Ramirez, the 21-year-old daughter of a Peruvian former race car driver. Her badly beaten body was found just two days after her murder, in a hotel room in an upmarket area of Peru's capital.Her neck was broken.