Daniel Sancho, son of actor Rodolfo Sancho and grandson of Sancho Gracia, is being held in Thailand after confessing to having murdered and dismembered Edwin Arrieta, a 44-year-old Colombian surgeon. At first, he denied having any relationship with the case and would even have reported the victim’s disappearance, but finally, according to the authorities of the Asian country, he succumbed and “admitted” the crime.
The 29-year-old is being held while he waits for his father to arrive and is also being helped by the consulate. And it is that Daniel faces a possible sentence that if the judge finds him guilty could mean 20 years in prison, life imprisonment and even the death penalty.. Thus, and with such a scenario, the state of the detainee is currently causing concern due to the high levels of stress to which he is subjected.
The head of the Koh Pha Ngan police station has revealed to bangkokpost that The actor’s son has shown “clear signs of stress”, that he is “very nervous” and that is why he has given instructions to “monitor him closely for fear that he will resort to suicide”. The same medium publishes that Daniel did not sleep after being questioned by police officers.
A crime with different hypotheses
Lieutenant General Surapong assured that the murder of the Colombian Edwin Arrieta “could be due to a jealous attack”, but it is not the only hypothesis that the authorities are handling at the moment. The Bangkok Post has had access to the statement that Daniel Sancho would have made in which he allegedly narrates how he and Edwin went up to a hotel room where the surgeon “wanted to have sexual intercourse.””.
Daniel would have refused and in a “fit of anger” he punched him that made the Colombian lose consciousness, because it made him fall and hit the bathtub. It was then that Sancho would have decided to “cut his body into 14 pieces.”
