Joran van der Sloot sits in the courtroom before his sentencing at San Pedro prison in Lima, Peru, in this 2012 file photo. Van der Sloot’s lawyer, Maximo Altez, said Wednesday, May 14, 2014, the 26-year-old Dutchman and his Peruvian fiance have nearly completed legal arrangements to wed. He says the future Mrs. van der Sloot, Leydi Figueroa, is five months pregnant with a boy.LIMA, Peru – Joran van der Sloot’s lawyer says the convicted murder is soon to be both father and husband.
Maximo Altez told The Associated Press on Wednesday that the 26-year-old Dutchman and his Peruvian fiance have nearly completed legal arrangements to wed. The future Mrs. van der Sloot is five months pregnant with a boy, he said.
Altez has said van der Sloot’s met 22-year-old Leydi Figueroa Uceda while she was selling goods inside Lima’s Piedras Gordas prison, where the two are to be married on an as-yet undetermined date.
Van der Sloot remains the chief suspect in the unsolved 2005 disappearance in his native Aruba of U.S. teen Natalee Holloway.
He is serving a 28-year sentence for killing a 21-year-old female Peruvian student he met in a Lima casino.