New data on the ‘Daniel Sancho case’. Little by little More details are being learned about the days prior to the murder and dismemberment of the Colombian surgeon Edwin Arrieta, 44 years old, at the hands of the son of Rodolfo Sancho. The 29-year-old cook remains in pretrial detention in Koh Samui prison, one of the largest in Thailand, awaiting trial. “I am guilty, but I was the hostage,” the Spaniard said in his statement.
Daniel Sancho, accused of premeditated murder after images came to light where he is seen buying a knife and other objects that he would have used in the crime, hinted that he was being threatened by Edwin Arrieta with divulge photos of an intimate nature “to shake the reputation” of the family of artists.
This Friday, the magazine ‘Week’ publishes the testimony of a Spanish family that traveled to Bangkok on July 31 in the seats next to Sancho’s. During the flight, they talked with the defendant without imagining what would happen just a few days later. “It’s my last trip to Thailand,” the young man said. “My sons are in their twenties… More or less the same age as him. So it didn’t take them long to talk to him. They began to exchange opinions about the destination and places of interest in the capital of Thailand,” they told the aforementioned outlet.
This family assures that the defendant “went alone” and “dressed informally.” “Right away he asked us if we knew Thailand and if it was the first time we were there. He told us that he was very pretty, that he had gone many times and that he was sure that we would love him ”, they continue to tell. A talk that they classify as “very friendly” and “relaxed”.
Daniel Sancho’s plans
“Daniel told us that he worked in Spain as a cook. He was very nice. We found it charming, really. You could tell he was a very polite boy. He was good at talking. Very nice”, with these words they describe the defendant in statements for ‘Semana.
Rodolfo Sancho’s son also confessed his plans for the future. “He told us that he was in the hotel business, that he worked in a restaurant in Madrid and that he was going to set up another, like groom, and that I would no longer have to go to Thailand. He did not give us many more details, but he seemed very excited,” they say.
