Koh Phangan (Thailand), Aug 9 (EFE).- Daniel Sancho, the Spaniard imprisoned on the Thai island of Koh Samui for being the alleged murderer of Colombian Edwin Arrieta, maintains “a good state of mind”, as he told EFE on Wednesday the director of the prison.
“His state of mind is still good,” Watcharapong Boonsaior, director of the Koh Samui district prison, where Sancho was provisionally entered on Monday after pleading guilty to the murder and dismemberment of his friend Edwin Arrieta on the neighboring island of Koh Samui, said by phone. Koh Phangan.
Boonsaior explained that although Sancho “did not show signs of fear or anxiety” when he entered the prison, two prison officials are in charge of taking care of him and “talking with him to alleviate any potential stress.”
Sancho, 29, underwent a physical analysis upon arrival at the center and “his general condition was normal.” The son of actor Rodolfo Sancho is serving a mandatory ten-day isolation in the hospital area of the prison to comply with the protocols for the prevention of the covid-19 pandemic.
The director of the center pointed out that the Spaniard will not receive any special treatment and “has the same rights as other inmates.”
The Samui prison is considered a “friendly” prison for maximum sentences of 15 years” and Sancho is currently in a “calmer” internal division, in which the cells are “better” and have fewer prisoners, sources say. close to the case.
The prison director has not wanted to comment on whether Sancho has had the opportunity to meet Carlos Alcañiz, another Spaniard imprisoned in the same center.
Sancho entered jail on Monday after pleading guilty to the murder and dismemberment of Arrieta, a 44-year-old Colombian surgeon, whose first remains were found last week in a landfill on the tourist island.
So far, seven parts of the fifteen in which Arrieta’s body was dismembered have been found, according to what Sancho confessed to the police during the interrogations, the agents told EFE from Koh Phangan, where he was arrested last Saturday and where the The young man himself reported the disappearance of his friend on Thursday.
Sancho, who arrived in Koh Phangan on August 1 with the idea of practicing Thai boxing (Muay Thai), met Arrieta there a day later, who traveled to Thailand following in his footsteps, the young Spaniard told EFE.
Sancho himself reported a day later, on the night of Thursday, August 3, the disappearance of the Colombian at the Koh Phangan police station, and began to be questioned as a suspect on Friday. EFE
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