Daniel Sancho remains in Koh Samui prison awaiting the trial in which he will be convicted of the murder and dismemberment of Edwin Arrieta on the island of Koh Phangan. A hearing that will probably arrive at the beginning of 2024 and where the young man is exposed to a death penalty or life imprisonment since The authorities of the Asian country understand that he acted with premeditation. Meanwhile, the Spaniard’s legal team continues working on the strategy that the defense will set to avoid the maximum penalty by all means.
Daniel Sancho’s lawyer, Marcos García Montes, has a clear roadmap: prove that your client was fleeing the victim or that he suffered some type of psychotic break, as Rodolfo Sancho hinted in his message to Arrieta’s sister. This is confirmed by Carmen Balfagón, spokesperson for the family, in statements for the Telecinco program ‘Vamos a ver’.
Carmen Balfagón explains that the strategy to avoid the death penalty involves working on the phrase that Daniel Sancho uttered during his confession: “I am guilty, but I was his hostage. It was a glass cage, but a cage.” A few words with which the son of Rodolfo Sancho and Silvia Bronchalo verbalized the alleged harassment he suffered from the Colombian surgeon.
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“I don’t know the motivation. We want to know what he meant about the glass cage.“In the Thai jurisdiction there are conditions,” Balfagón clarifies in the morning program of the main Mediaset channel.
Presumption of innocence
Both Marcos García Montes and the spokesperson for the Sancho family insist on the presumption of innocence of the accused despite the fact that the young man confessed all the details of the crime. “Until he is tried he is locked up under the presumption of innocence. “I am convinced that the Thai authorities and the prison are behaving well with him because he is a preventive prisoner,” says Balfagón.
“I insist that we must respect the Thai system, its ways and procedures. I am convinced that, in the statement, he tells the police and there are phrases that are leaked. Those phrases that are put in Daniel’s mouth have been told to us by the police”says the spokesperson about the leaks to the press.
