A three-member panel of Aruban judges ruled today that the two brothers who have been arrested more than once in the Natalee Holloway case should remain free, which may mean trouble in the investigation into the disappearance of teenager Natalee Holloway. The panel turned down a request from prosecutors to reverse the decision of a judge made last week in the case against the two brothers.
The panel of judges said that the case against Deepak and Satish Kalpoe fails to show whether or not Natalee Holloway died as the result of a crime. The trouble that prosecutors may have now is the fact that Joran van der Sloot may not be able to be held as well. Van der Sloot was slated to have a hearing on Friday but at a request from defense attorneys he will get his hearing tomorrow, Thursday December 6th.
The decision of the court in this matter is final and does not allow for further appeals but it does not stop further investigation or prosecution later.
Good morning, Richard. I am pleased Joran gets his hearing today, Feb. 6th. I hope he is released. I think people are foolish to believe that a person is innocent until proven guilty – except in Aruba. There were so many things going on that night – a party on the party boat, boats going in and out of the beach, Jossie Mansur’s illegal immigrant gardener’s illegal immigrant son who was “trolling the beach because his apt. was hot.” Why no air conditioning, Jossie?
The immigrant son may have been trolling for drugs from Dompig’s drug dealing brother-in-law; the fishermen were there (why was a crab trap stolen if they were there?) – and a fisherman was quoted as saying “nobody was on the beach,” at the time Natalee disappeared, so he had to have been there to see that, but not to see the crab trap or Natalee being stolen. There was a car parked near the rest area near the fishermen’s hut; there was Croes, who was the d.j. on the party boat (he certainly had binoculars and watched the beach); there were people from the island and from the hotels who frequented and purchased drugs from Dompig’s drug-dealing brother-in-law; and there were the Kalpoe brothers who dropped Joran back to his house (I should say Satish) – and Natalee had insulted the Kalpoe brothers when they were in the car after they left C & C. So it baffles me when I hear people being so hateful to Joran and his family. They deserve a break from all this hate and the accusations. If there is proof later that he did something – they should pursue it then. If not, lets be American about this and proclaim that Joran is due the same respect we expect here in America, “Innocent until proven guilty.” With all that going on at that beach, why pin it on one guy there – Joran.