WRAP Dutchman sought in murder; video of victim, victim's father; Netherlands Casino

(3 Jun 2010) SHOTLIST
Lima, Peru – 2 June 2010
1. Various exterior shots of hotel where 21-twelvemonth old Stephany Flores’ body was found
2. Zoom into Flores’ father showing photograph of prime suspect, Dutchman, Joran van der Sloot, UPSOUND: (Spanish) Ricardo Flores, Stephany Flores’ father: “This is the photo of the murderer of my daughter.”
3. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Ricardo Flores, Stephany Flores’ father:
“This is not the first murder this man has committed. In 2005 he did the same and because he was a minor so, and the body was not found, he walked free.”
4. Various shots of Netherlands Casino where Flores and Van der Sloot were seen together
Lima, Peru – 2 June 2010
5. Police removing body of Stephany Flores from hotel
6. Police van driving away with body
7. broad of police news conference
8. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) General Cesar Guardia, Chief of the Criminal Investigation Department of the Peruvian Police:
“We have several important incriminating elements: we have a statement from a hotel employee saying that she saw this foreigner accompanying the victim when they were entering room number 309 on May 30th at 5 in the morning. Approximately four hours later this foreign citizen leaves the hotel.”
nine. Close upward of print out with photograph of Joran van der Sloot
10. Print out of photos of images of Van der Sloot and victim Stephany Flores held upward by policeman
11. Close of image of Flores
12. broad of news conference
FILE: San Nicolas, Aruba – 7 December 2007
13. broad of Aruba Correctional facility
14. Various of Joran van der Sloot leaving prison and greeting parents
15. Close-upward of Van der Sloot, visible through window of car
16. Car driving away
STORYLINE
A immature Dutchman previously arrested in the 2005 disappearance of US teenager Natalee Holloway was the prime suspect in a weekend murder of a Peruvian adult female, police said on Wednesday.
Joran van der Sloot was being sought in the Sunday killing of 21-twelvemonth-old Stephany Flores in a Lima hotel, Criminal police chief General Cesar Guardia told a news conference.
He said the suspect fled the country the next day by bus to Republic of Chile.
The Dutch government said Interpol had issued an international arrest warrant for Van der Sloot.
Guardia said the 22-twelvemonth-old Dutchman, who was in the country for a poker tournament, appeared with the immature adult female in a video taken at a Lima Netherlands Casino early on Sunday.
The victim’s father, Ricardo Flores, told reporters his daughter was killed about 8 a.m. (1300 GMT) in a hotel room in the upscale Miraflores neighbourhood that was splattered with blood, indicating a struggle.
Van der Sloot left Peru on Monday, Guardia said, according to the immigration registry.
He had been staying at the hotel since May 14 and checked out on Sunday four hours after he arrived at that place with the victim, the police general added.
“We have a statement from a hotel employee saying that she saw this foreigner accompanying the victim when they were entering room number 309 on May 30th at 5 in the morning,” said Guardia.
Interpol has issued an international arrest warrant for Van der Sloot, a Dutch Foreign Ministry spokesman told The Associated Press in The Netherlands.
He cited as his sources Peruvian police and the Dutch Embassy in Lima. The embassy’s head of consular affairs, Angela Lowe, told the AP she could not comment on the case.
An attorney for Van der Sloot in New York City, Joe Tacopina, said he did not know his client’s whereabouts and has not been in touching with him since the Peru allegations emerged.
Tacopina cautioned against a rush to judgment.
The killing occurred exactly five years after the May 30, 2005, disappearance of American teenager Natalee Holloway in Aruba, a Dutch Caribbean island.
Van der Sloot’s late father was a prominent judge in Aruba.

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