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Joran: I brutally murdered Peru gal

Joran van der Sloot, the prime suspect in the 2005 disappearance of American teen Natalee Holloway, reportedly confessed to murdering Stephany Flores in Peru after she grabbed his laptop and learned about his connection to Holloway’s disappearance.

“I did not want to do it. The girl intruded into my private life,” van der Sloot told Peruvian authorities, according to La Republica newspaper.

He said he became enraged after Flores snatched his computer, snapping her neck and striking her, the paper said.

“She had no right,” he reportedly griped to investigators. “She was scared, we argued, she tried to escape and I grabbed her by the neck and hit her.”

The Dutch playboy was nabbed last week in the brutal slaying of Flores, 21 — who was murdered five years to the day after Holloway, 18, vanished while on a class trip to Aruba.

Fox News, citing Peruvian media, reported that van der Sloot spilled the beans in order to get a reduced jail sentence.

Van der Sloot, 22, met Flores, a business student, while gambling at a casino in Lima.

Officials released hotel security video footage of the two entering his room. Three hours later, he exited alone.

He then told hotel employees not to go into his room, for which he had paid in advance for another two weeks.

After the slaying, van der Sloot hopped into a cab, paid the driver about $600 in cash and chain-smoked all the way to Chile.

Last Thursday, van der Sloot was captured and sent back to Peru, where he was paraded in front of television cameras wearing a bulletproof vest.

Initially, he told investigators that he had met Flores but had nothing to do with her death.

The same day that he was nabbed for the murder, he was charged by federal prosecutors in Alabama with trying to extort $250,000 from Holloway’s mom, Elizabeth Twitty, telling her that he knew where her daughter’s body was buried.

In 2008, van der Sloot confessed to murdering Holloway to a Dutch reporter.

Two years later, a Dutch newspaper reported that van der Sloot had said Holloway fell off a balcony while drunk.

Van der Sloot’s New York lawyer Joseph Tacopina did not return an email for comment.

With Candace Amos and Ginger Adams Otis