This Tuesday, April 9, the long-awaited trial of Daniel Sancho will begin in which he will be tried for the murder and dismemberment of the Colombian surgeon, Edwin Arrieta. The process It will extend until May 3 with four weekly sessions, from Tuesday to Friday, and will have more than 50 witnesses: 28 from the Prosecutor’s Office and 27 from the Spanish defense. The young cook has remained in provisional prison since last August waiting to hear the sentence of the Thai justice system, which could be life imprisonment or, in the worst case, the death penalty in force in the Asian country.
According to the latest information, the son of Rodolfo Sancho and Silvia Bronchalo will be one of the last to testify. Those who They will not be able to offer their testimony, not even by videoconference, they are Leoboldo Arrieta and Marcela Arteaga, parents of the victim, after the decision of the Koh Samui provincial court. The Thai authorities consider that the time difference that exists between Colombia and Thailand, as well as the couple’s lack of telematic resources, make this action difficult. They have offered us two alternatives: that we provide all the documentation that the parents were going to ratify or that someone close can testify, reports Juan Gonzalo Ospina, lawyer for the Arrieta family, in statements for La Razn.
For his part, the accused remains calm and well, as confirmed by his defender, the prestigious jurist Marcos García Montes. Carmen Balfagn, the young man’s other defender, reveals that she is looking forward to the trial beginning and that she tells him that there is no evidence for death sentences or life imprisonment.
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What happened between Daniel Sancho and Edwin Arrieta?
Edwin Arrieta and Daniel Sancho agreed to meet in Thailand on July 31, 2023 and enjoy a few days of disconnection in the country. Both had known each other for a year before thanks to the power of social networks and They had several previous meetings in Madrid where the Spaniard’s friends witnessed that supposed friendship between them. They met on August 2 in a bungal they had rented, the scene of the macabre crime.
Big Joke, who was number two in the Thai police, assured a few days after the crime that Daniel Sancho punched Dr. Arrieta, who fell and hit his head on the sink, but he did not die at that moment, but when Sancho began to cut his throat. It should be remembered that the victim’s dismembered body appeared in a landfill packaged in black bags.
Daniel Sancho insists that the death of Edwin Arrieta was accidental after a struggle between the two that occurred when the Spaniard wanted to end his romantic relationship with the Colombian. However, The Thai Prosecutor’s Office maintains that the cook acted with premeditation, drawing up a Machiavellian plan to end the doctor’s life.. The prosecution has a total of fifty-three pieces of evidence that would demonstrate that Rodolfo Sancho’s son prepared everything thoroughly; from the purchase of several knives and garbage bags previously to the rental of a kayak with which he would have transported part of Arrieta’s mortal remains.
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Death penalty?
The Prosecutor of Thailand accuses Daniel Sancho of three crimes: premeditated murder, concealment of the body and destruction of other people’s documentation, that is, Arrieta’s passport. The first of these misdeeds is punishable, according to the country’s Penal Code, with the death penalty, a circumstance that the defense led by Marcos García Montes tries to avoid by all means. The Spaniard’s legal team will go to great lengths to ensure that the judge rules out premeditation and, thus, the maximum penalty by considering that it was a homicide and not a murder.
In that case, two scenarios open up; on the one hand, the path of acquittal, and another, which would be reckless homicide, in a non-serious manner, and with a sentence of six years. This is how García Montes explains it in an interview for 20 Minutes. With this, and as the chief prosecutor of the Koh Phangan area said in an interview on laSexta, He could be transferred to Spain with a third of the sentence, if he is sentenced to six years, in two he would be hereade.
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