Convicted killer Joran Van der Sloot has been savagely attacked by a gang of inmates inside the hell-hole Peruvian prison holding him, the MailOnline can reveal. The Dutchman, 27, was stabbed ‘many times’ in the stomach with a makeshift prison ‘shank’ at the notorious maximum security Challapalca prison in the north of Peru. Van der Sloot’s Peruvian wife Leidy Figueroa told MailOnline that her husband was ‘almost killed’ in the brutal attack on Sunday and has ‘lost a lot of blood’. She said his fellow inmates believed that killing such a high-profile prisoner would lead to their notoriously tough jail being closed. Scroll down for video.

Devoted: Leidy Figeuroa, Van der Sloot's Peruvian wife, revealed how he had been attacked in prison. She is seen with ceramics he has made behind bars The 25-year-old, who is also the mother of the killer's child, handed MailOnline photos of blood soaked white sheets which she claims were used to cover Van der Sloot’s wounds. Close to tears Leidy said: ‘Joran was stabbed many times in the stomach by other inmates, he was almost killed, I am scared for his life. ‘He’s losing a lot of blood but isn’t receiving any medical attention.He’s been very poorly, I have been trying to get the guards to take him to hospital. ‘The prison service is trying to cover this up, please please help.’ Leidy believes inmates at Challapalca targeted Van der Sloot because they believe the publicity surrounding his death could lead to the tough jail being shut down.

She claims her husband was also attacked and stabbed in the shoulder on October 27th by another prisoner. Share 'On Saturday I went to see Joran and he told me that on the 27th October he’d been stabbed in the shoulder by one of the convicts,' she told MailOnline.

'The other inmates threaten him all the time, and call him racist insults like 'foreign b******'. 'The wardens made him wash the t-shirt to wash off the blood hide any trace of the attack'. 'I left him on Saturday and came back on Sunday with some food for him.

When I saw him he was pale and about to pass out. 'He was wearing jacket on top of his T-shirt and suddenly I realized that some blood was coming out from the jacket. I looked and he had a 15cm [hree inch] stab wound on his side and was cut in other places, the wound was bleeding massively. Conditions inside Peru's jails have become notorious. In 2012 the government declared a state of emergency because of chronic over-crowding, accusations of corruption and brutality, and claims of prisoners abusing other inmates.

And last year the as one of its major concerns about human rights in the country. 'Nationwide, prison guards and fellow inmates reportedly abused prisoners,' it said. 'Inmates reportedly killed fellow inmates. 'Inmates had intermittent access to potable water, bathing facilities were inadequate, kitchen facilities were unhygienic, and prisoners often slept in hallways and common areas for lack of cell space.' 'I started to scream and cry and ask for help, but no wardens would come to help.

After about half an hour some medics came and stitched the stab in a very basic way, but he was still bleeding with the wound stitches. 'I grabbed Joran’s T-shirt and shouted that this was evidence of the abuse and aggression, and I was going to take it with me. The wardens tried grab it from me so I put it on my own body, with the blood and everything, and managed to leave the prison with it.' She also said that on these two last visits to the prison she counted around 15 'diseased, starving, half-dead dogs' living among the convicts. Van der Sloot, who is serving a 28-year sentence for killing a Peruvian student in 2010, was transferred to Challapalca in August.

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He also remains the chief suspect in the disappearance of Alabama high school student Natalee Holloway in Aruba in 2005. The two prison attacks come just days after Van der Sloot penned a rambling letter from his jail cell blasting the country's prison authorities for violating ‘every one’ of his human rights. In the letter, obtained by MailOnline, Van der Sloot claims he and other inmates at the Challapalca prison are subject to daily beatings, torture and humiliation at the hands of sadistic jail staff.

And he says he fears for his life after claiming wardens told him they have been given the ‘green light’ to ‘break all his bones’. His four-page handwritten letter was smuggled out of the remote lock-up, which is located at an altitude of 16,000 feet in the Andes mountains, close to the borders with Bolivia and Chile. Tough: Van der Sloot is patted down by a masked prison officer along with other inmates. He has now written to demand a 'criminal investigation' into conditions in the prison where he is being held According to Van der Sloot, prisoners are banned from communicating with their families or even having pens or paper to prevent news of the ‘abuses’ getting out. Addressing his letter to Peru's president, among other federal institutions as well as the Red Cross and the country's Dutch ambassador, Van der Sloot demands a ‘criminal investigation’ into the prison and begs to be returned to his previous jail in the country's capital Lima. Writing in Spanish littered with errors, the murderer whines about conditions in the jail, saying there is no water or electricity, inmates are locked up in their cells 24 hours a day, and food is not even heated up before being served to prisoners.

Murderer Van der Sloot's letter from behind bars where he claims to have been mistreated ‘It is a terrible situation that in the year 2014 should no longer exist. ‘It is a very serious situation that violates every one of my human rights.

‘I thought that prisons were supposed to reintegrate offenders into society, not to torture inmates.’ Meanwhile, Van der Sloot's new wife told MailOnline how she ‘passed out’ on a recent visit to Challapalca, after witnessing conditions at the prison for herself. Speaking before the latest attacks Leidy described the facility as ‘a place of torture’ and said she was terrified Van der Sloot - who married her in July - would not get out of the prison alive. She said: ‘It is a horrific place and the men are treated worst than animals. ‘The prisoners are constantly beaten and tortured by the wardens. The men sleep in cells full of their own excrement. The whole place stinks of sewage.

‘Many of the men are dying of tuberculosis and other diseases. But there's no doctor or medical department in the prison so the men are just left to die. ‘There are men who have broken bones and bruises all over their bodies from the beatings.

‘The prisoners just get a two-liter bottle of water a week. If they want more water they have to pay the wardens for it. So they can't clean themselves properly.’. Wife: Leidy Figeuroa married Van der Sloot earlier this year.

She was photographed earlier this year while pregnant with their daughter, to whom she gave birth in September Leidy, who gave birth to Van der Sloot’s daughter in September, said her husband is targeted for beatings which she claims have left him a ‘shadow of himself’. She said: ‘Joran's in a terrible state. Install Itunes Linux Mint 16 Source. He's been severely beaten, because he went on hunger strike.

He's very mentally affected by it. ‘He's lost 25 kg (3 stone 13lb) already. He's not the same man I married. ‘Last month his mother Anita visited him and she was appalled too. But as soon as she left he was beaten up by the wardens who stole from him the belongings and money that his mother had given him. ‘Joran is terrified, he thinks he's going to die.’ It is not known how Van der Sloot managed to write his letter, which is dated September 25, 2014 and also signed by 32 of Van der Sloot's fellow inmates in the jail's Pavillion 3 wing. The copy of the letter obtained by MailOnline is stamped as ‘received’ by the Peruvian Congress.

Van der Sloot writes: ‘At night the temperature can reach -20oC, there is no water, no electricity, no yard, and we are locked up 24 hours a day. Leidy Figeuroa, the wife Van der Sloot married behind bars ‘There is no communication with our family and they attack us psychologically as well as physically.’ They have destroyed all our shoes, and at all hours of the night they throw rocks and sticks through our cell bars.’ He claims that on the day he and other prisoners were transferred to the prison on 24 August, they were attacked my wardens. ‘That night they took various prisoners, stripped them naked and beat them with sticks on the floor,’ he writes. On another occasion, on September 18, he claims prison staff ‘threw tear gas into all the cells, without any reason. There was no way to escape the gas. It burned the throat like you can't imagine.

‘Being so far away from society they know they can get away with what they do. The prison staff change every five months and so there are no consequences for them.’ He also claims that on September 12 he was threatened by two wardens, who told him they had been sent by Sergio Haro Huapuya, the director of his previous prison Piedras Gordas - now renamed Ancon 1 - who had sanctioned his transfer to Challapalca.

There’s no evidence this claim bares any truth. According to Van der Sloot, they told him ‘that if there is any complaint they have the green light to break all my bones. They beat me on the head and left.’. Co-signed: 32 other inmates names are on the letter and what appear to be their signatures. Van der Sloot whines that he wants moved to another prison because he wants to be near his family Begging to be returned to the Ancon 1 prison on the outskirts of Lima, from where he was moved after authorities claimed he had threatened to kill a warden, desperate Van der Sloot pleads: ‘I am an only child, recently married my wife bought an apartment in Ancon to be close to me. I don't understand what I'm doing here. ‘I am here because I got married and because the director Haro Huapuya doesn't like me, which is not a reason to send someone to another province, to a prison of punishment where there are extortionists, kidnappers and fugitives.

‘All my evaluations in the last two years have been positive. I have worked in craft painting and recently as an engraver. I am undergoing psychological and social treatment and I am enrolled to study international business at the UAP (Peruvian Alas University). I have documents to prove all this.

‘What hurts me is that I want to be a husband to my wife and a father to my daughter and step-son, something that in this prison I can't be because a newborn baby would die in this climate.’ Van der Sloot is expected to remain in prison until 2038 and then be extradited to the United States to face charges of extortion and fraud for allegedly falsely promising to lead Natalee Holloway's mother to the girl's body in exchange for $25,000 payment. The murderer was the last person seen with Natalee, who vanished while on a high school graduation trip to Aruba. No charges were filed against Van der Sloot and the case remains unsolved. In 2010, he confessed to killing Stephany Flores, a 21-year-old business student, five years to the day after Holloway's disappearance. Choke: Leidy believes Van der Sloot when he claims he had 'no responsibility' for the death of US student Natalee Holloway (left) in Aruba in 2005. As for strangling Stephny Flores, (right), she said: 'The things he's done, they are behind him now.

He is a changed man and he seeks forgiveness' 'He has spoken about it only briefly and I don't want to ask. Of course I understand, I am a mother too and I would want to know what happened to my child. I have a young son and a daughter on the way, I would not want to go through what the family of Natalee Holloway has gone through.'

In 2010 Van der Sloot allegedly tried to extort $250,000 out of Beth Holloway, Natalee's mom. In return, he promised to reveal 'the location of Natalee Holloway’s remains in Aruba and information regarding the circumstances of her death,' according to a criminal complaint filed later that year. Beth Holloway tipped off the FBI. She also gave Van der Sloot a down payment of $25,000. He took the money and ran.

He has since been convicted of killing Peruvian business student Stephany Flores. He the met 21-year-old at a casino in Lima, Peru, and they arranged to spend the predawn hours of May 30, 2010, together at the tables. At about 5.30am, Van der Sloot persuaded Flores to go back to his hotel with him to keep gaming on his laptop. As they started to play, an email or Facebook message popped up on Van der Sloot's screen: 'I am going to kill you, mongolito (little mongoloid),' it read. May 30 happened to be the fifth anniversary of Holloway's disappearance, but who sent the message is unclear. Van der Sloot, he later admitted, told Flores some of the story.

Flores hit him, according to the confession he gave Peruvian police, which he later recanted saying he made the admission under duress. He swung his elbow around and smashed her nose, which started gushing blood. Then, he said, he just lost control, smothering her with a bloody shirt and throttling her. He took all the money she had on her, he said, about $300. Yet despite admitting his role in a brutal murder and the widespread belief that he also was involved in Natalee Holloway’s disappearance, his wife Leidy still vigorously defends him.

'Yes Joran admitted to me he killed Stephany Flores, he has spoken about it a few times. But the things he's done, I've always thought that I don’t believe them and they are behind him now. 'God punishes us for what we do on earth, and Joran is being punished for what he has done.

But he is a changed man, he has found God and he seeks forgiveness. Alfred North Whitehead Adventures Of Ideas Pdf here. '