Gives key for Daniel Sancho. The Spanish cook, who remains in provisional prison for the murder and dismemberment of the Colombian surgeon Edwin Arrieta, sat before the judge of Samui this Monday in a new oral hearing where he was read the charges of which the Thai Prosecutor’s Office accuses him: premeditated murder, concealment of the body and destruction of other people’s documentation. Three charges of which he has only accepted two.
And, according to reports from EFE, the son of Rodolfo Sancho and Silvia Bronchalo has pleaded not guilty to the premeditated murder of Arrieta on the island of Koh Phangan. The Spaniard seeks at all costs to escape premeditation, an aggravating circumstance that the Thai Penal Code punishes with the death penalty in its article 289.4. However, he does admit to having dismembered him, as well as hiding the victim’s body. He insists that the doctor’s death was due to an accident.
The Prosecutor’s Office of the Asian country explains that, after this last movement by Daniel Sancho before the judge, another procedure is initiated that includes a new statement from the accused, as well as another examination of evidence that will culminate in a trial that will arrive between the months of February and April 2024. A new hearing will be held on November 27.
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Today’s hearing should have been held on October 26. However, it was postponed until this Monday due to the young man’s request to have an interpreter from Thai to Spanish and not to English as had happened until then. It should be remembered that, according to Thai law, The court is obliged to offer a translator if the accused requests it.
Now The cook must meet again with his public defenderKrit Sudthanom, the Thai lawyer who took the case after Rodolfo Sancho decided to dispense with the services of Khun Anan, his son’s first defender, due to discrepancies in the defense.
Sancho’s confession
Daniel Sancho has been in provisional prison since last August 7. I am guilty, but I was Edwin’s hostage. He held me hostage. It was a glass cage, but it was a cage. He made me destroy my relationship with my girlfriend, he has forced me to do things I would never have done, he stated in his first statement. A macabre crime that he perpetrated during the days that they were both on vacation in the place.
The Spaniard confessed the facts during the interrogations that took place a few hours after He himself would denounce the disappearance of Edwin Arrieta. She did it through the assistance of an interpreter and a police officer who translated from Thai to English.
