Reports: Joran Van der Sloot confesses to 2010 Stephany Flores murder in Peru (VIDEO)

Joran Van der Sloot, the Dutch man accused of the 2010 killing of business student Stephany Flores in Lima, Peru, confessed to her murder and will face reduced charges, the BBC reported.

Van der Sloot’s trial began Friday in Peru but was postponed after a confession was entered.

Van der Sloot was also the prime suspect in the 2005 disappearance of American teenager Natalee Holloway in Aruba. The 24-year-old Dutchman was held but never charged due to a lack of evidence. Holloway, who was 18 at the time of her disappearance, was never found.

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According to the BBC:

Police say Mr Van der Sloot admitted to strangling Flores on 30 May 2010 after he found her looking at his laptop in his hotel room. The laptop contained information about the Holloway case.

After Flores’ death, Van der Sloot fled to Chile where police captured him and returned him to Peru. In exchange for the plea bargain, prosecutors will now ask for 30 years instead of a life sentence, the BBC said.

Van der Sloot bunks with a Mexican and a Chinese inmate at a maximum security detention center. He allegedly “spends his days making crafts and reading self-help books,” the Associated Press reported.

However, the AP said that his lawyer argued Van der Sloot's confession should be voided because "the defense lawyer present when he made it was state-appointed and no official translator was present."

Here's a video on the Van der Sloot murder case:

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