Daniel Sancho, the son of actor Rodolfo Sancho, speaks for the first time after learning that he murdered and dismembered Colombian surgeon Edwin Arrieta, 44, in Thailand. The young man, who is being held in Koh Pha Ngan, confessed to the crime shortly after reporting the victim’s disappearance at a local police station. “I am guilty, but I was the hostage,” he says in statements collected by EFE.
“He held me hostage. It was a glass cage, but it was a cage. It made me destroy the relationship with my girlfriend. She has forced me to do things that I would never have done ”, explains Sancho, 29 years old. When asked if he felt forced by the police to confess to the murder, he says: “I didn’t feel comfortable, but I didn’t feel forced either. I felt like I didn’t have any other choice either.” “They took DNA tests and that’s it. That’s it, ”she insists.
“He was obsessed with me. He deceived me, he made me believe that what he wanted was to do business with me, put money into the company in which I am a partner. That we do things together, that we go to Mexico, Chile and Colombia to open a restaurant. It was all a lie. The only thing he wanted from me was to be his boyfriend, ”records the defendant’s testimony. “Every time I tried to get away from him, he threatened me,” he ditch.
fear of suicide
Despite the fact that the first investigations point to “a crime of passion”, Daniel Sancho flatly denies that he had a sentimental relationship with the Colombian. The young man will go to court this Monday on the island of Koh Samui. For his part, the head of the Koh Pha Ngna police station tells the ‘Bangkok Post’ that the interpreter’s son showed “clear signs of stress” and that is why he gave instructions for “to watch him closely for fear that he will resort to suicide.”
