2023-08-07 14:40:30
A Thai judge has ordered the entry into prison of Daniel Sancho Bronchalo, accused of the murder and dismemberment of the Colombian surgeon Edwin Arrieta in Thailand, who this morning was transferred from the Koh Phangan police station (southern Thailand) to the court on the nearby island of Koh Samui. “I want to collaborate in everything,” he told the Efe agency while he was taken to the private boat in which he is taken to court. The detainee’s family is still on a trip to Thailand, but has already hired a lawyer to replace the public defender who until now has been in charge of legal support for Sancho. At the moment, he has been admitted to the prison on the island of Samui, in the south of the country, where he will have to spend ten days in isolation due to sanitary protocol.
The 29-year-old left the police station with a police escort and hiding his hands under a red cloth, after remaining at the police station since he began to be questioned on Friday as a suspect in the murder and dismemberment of Colombian plastic surgeon Edwin Arrieta, to which he pleaded guilty in front of Saturday. On the island where he has stayed until now there is no court. Once the prison has been decided, the usual thing in this country is for him to remain behind bars until the trial.
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Sancho’s family (the detainee is the son of Spanish actor Rodolfo Sancho) has hired a private law firm for the young man’s defense, sources close to the case confirmed to Efe, although for the moment the Thai public defender continues to represent him. The family continues on a trip to the islands.
Arrieta’s corpse was dismembered and the first remains, the pelvis and a right leg, were found in the tourist resort of Koh Phangan on Thursday and Friday, respectively, according to the police report, which details that the limb was found in a landfill in the island. Police have confirmed that the head has also been recovered and that the remains of the body have been identified as belonging to Arrieta.
In a conversation with Efe on Sunday, Sancho pleaded guilty to the crime and assured: “I am guilty, but I was Edwin’s hostage. He held me hostage. It was a glass cage, but it was a cage.” According to the police report, Sancho arrived in Koh Phangan on July 31 and on August 1 bought knives and black and green garbage bags from a shop on the island. He himself points out that Arrieta did not arrive on the island until Wednesday, August 2, and that Sancho went to pick him up (at the arrival point of the ferry from Samui) at 3:05 p.m. The two then went together to a bar near the Bougain hotel, where they stayed until 6:00 p.m., before going to another place afterwards. Sancho himself reported on Thursday night at the Koh Phangan police station the disappearance of his friend at dawn on August 3.
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In his first statement to the police, Sancho assured that he had seen Arrieta for the first time on this trip on Wednesday, August 2, around three in the afternoon (10 in the morning in Spain), when he went to the Koh pier. Phangan to pick it up. As Sancho added in his police statement, they both went to eat at a restaurant and then visited Haad Rin beach, near the hotel where they were staying. The crime had occurred a day earlier.
Image provided by the Thai police of some of the bags found with the remains of the Colombian Edwin Arrieta. Police of Thailand Daniel Sancho, guarded by an agent, in a room with envelopes of evidence in an image provided by the police of the island of Koh Phangan .ROYAL THAI POLICE (EFE)Sancho and Arrieta circulate on a motorcycle through the streets of Koh Phangan in an image from a security camera provided by the Thai police.Thailand PolicePolice and forensic agents search a landfill in search of the remains of the Colombian Edwin Arrieta, allegedly murdered by the Spanish Daniel Sancho. ROYAL THAI POLICE (EFE)
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