No new arrest warrant in Holloway case

Published: Feb. 15, 2008 at 11:05 PM

ORANJESTAD, Aruba, Feb. 15 (UPI) -- A Dutch student's videotaped statements about Natalee Holloway's death on a beach in Aruba have complicated the case against him.

Judges in Aruba denied requests by prosecutors this week to issue an arrest warrant for Joran van der Sloot, ABC News reported. ABC broadcast the videotape made by an informant working with a Dutch journalist.

If van der Sloot was telling the truth on the tape, his words are not proof that he killed Holloway. He said that Holloway went into convulsions and then died in his arms and that he disposed of her body.

Pharmacologists told ABC that Holloway might have been given the date rape drug GBH. Paul Doering, a professor at the University of Florida College of Pharmacy, said the symptoms van der Sloot describes are typical of a GBH overdose and not of alcohol poisoning.

Peter de Vries, the Dutch journalist who arranged the hidden camera taping, told Radio Netherlands he is disappointed that van der Sloot remains at large. He said van der Sloot never retracted his statements that he was with Holloway and hid the body.

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