LIMA, (Reuters) – A young Dutch man linked to the  mysterious disappearance of a young American woman in Aruba has  confessed to murdering a female student in Peru, police said yesterday.

Colonel Abel Gamarra, a spokesman for Peru’s national  police, said Joran Van der Sloot admitted he killed 21-year-old  Stephany Flores, a business student whose body was found in a  Lima hotel room last week.

“He has confessed that he’s to blame for the death (of  Flores) because he was against the wall … this young man did  not have a choice. All the evidence, all the proof pointed  toward him,” Gamarra said.

He said Van der Sloot killed Flores after finding her  looking at his laptop computer in his hotel room. The laptop  contained e-mails about the 2005 death of Natalee Holloway, an  18-year-old American from Alabama who vanished during a high  school graduation trip to the Dutch Caribbean island of Aruba  in 2005.

“It seems the girl (Flores) questioned him about the  messages and he hit her with his hands,” Gamarra said.

Van der Sloot is the key suspect in the Holloway  disappearance and was arrested twice in the case but never  charged after giving different stories about her  disappearance.