2023-08-10 05:54:13
Daniel Sancho spends his first days in prison after admitting that he murdered Colombian surgeon Edwin Arrieta on the Thai island of Koh Panghan. After having been assisted by public defenders, a Spaniard has been in charge of acting as an intermediary between Sancho’s family and the Thai lawyer Anan Chuayprabat, who will try to speed up the deadlines and have him serve part of his sentence in Spain. Before that happens. Daniel will have to spend between 4 and 8 years in a Thai jail.
This past Tuesday, daniel sanchoactor’s son Rodolfo Sanchospent his second night in the Koh Samui prison, located on the island of Samui (Thailand), after the court judge ordered provisional detention for him after confessing to the murder of the Colombian surgeon Edwin Arrieta Arteaga on the island of Koh Panghan.
Since the news broke last Saturday, the case is being handled quickly, partly due to the rapid confession of Daniel Sancho. According to sources in the environment elcierredigital.com“Bangkok police [capital de Tailandia] He wants to close the case and sentence him quickly, without delaying the processes. That’s why The investigation is almost over.. In Thailand, the case is having a minimal impact, compared to what it is having in Spain or Colombia”. According to these same sources, trials in Thailand take approximately a year and a half, which they would try to reduce to four months.
The sentence, presumably and as all the media seem to indicate, would be for premeditated murderwhich would mean death penaltyalthough, according to some media reports, the victim’s family may not apply for it due to their religious beliefs.
That is where the work of Daniel Sancho’s lawyer, the Thai Anan Chuayprabat. A lawyer who, according to what he has been able to know elcierredigital.comhas been appointed by a Spanish intermediary that responds to the initials FOwho has been in charge of mediating between the family and the Thai lawyer.
Born in Barcelona, FO is Bachelor of Business and has an office in Bangkok in which he is in charge of mediating between foreigners and Thai lawyers, as well as streamlining processes. In fact, according to our sources, the Catalan has accompanied Sancho’s family to the island of Samui, where he is currently being held.
However, Daniel Sancho can’t receive visitors yet. The only contact from him, for a period of ten days, due to the Covid-19 protocol that continues to be used in Thai prisons, he is their lawyer. After those ten days, you will be able to receive visits from relatives who are in the country, who will be “limited in times and periodicity”according to our sources.
84 days in pretrial detention
Recently, Daniel Sancho’s lawyer spoke to the media about the young man’s condition. “I think he’s relaxed. He knows what he didI have explained the process (…) He wants to plan how to live in here,” revealed the Thai lawyer.
His words took place after the first meeting that the Thai lawyer had with the grandson of the actor Sancho Gracia in the Koh Samui prison. According to what the lawyer declared in front of the television cameras gathered at the gates of the prison, this meeting will be repeated for the next ten days.
Anan Chuayprabat, attorney for Daniel Santos.
The lawyer stated that Daniel was “calm”, however, he also stressed that his stay in the Koh Samui prison It could be up to 84 days taking into account the country’s legislation, which contemplates up to seven terms of twelve days each.
The dark future of Daniel Sancho in Thailand
After having entered the Koh Samui prison, the grandson of Sancho Gracia faces a dark and harsh future in Thailand since the Penal Code of the country is one of the most severe. The crime of murder can carry penalties ranging from from 15 or 20 years in prison to life imprisonment and the death penalty.
Under the circumstances, your attorney, Anan Chuayprabat, he would not be considering a defense strategy, because the Thai authorities already assume that the death corresponds to a murder perpetrated by Sancho. Both his intention and that of his family, therefore, would be – as affirmed by sources familiar with elcierredigital.com— that the sentence imposed on Daniel Sancho for the crime be finally commutedas occurred in the case of Artur Segarra.
However, in the event that the sentence was commuted, Daniel Sancho would have to pass, according to our sources “a minimum of four years, possibly up to eight, in a Thai prison before being transferred to a Spanish jail to serve the rest of his sentence, which would be the ultimate goal of his lawyer.”
As you may have learned elcierredigital.comin Spain weighs on Daniel Sancho a “misdemeanor for which he was convicted and which is being appealed in the Supreme Court”. His lawyer in Spain, louis gerezhas not given more information about it.
It is still up in the air what will be the prison to which Daniel Sancho will be assigned after the sentence. Those that the young man could finally enter are known for having subhuman living conditions.
Image of one of the prisons in Thailand.
One of them is Bang Kwang Central Prisonalso known as ‘the great tiger’ —because it is said that it “devours prisoners”— or by the name of Bangkok Hilton, due to the large number of foreigners sentenced to death who live within its walls. This is one of the most famous and feared prisons in Thailand, located in the province of Nonthaburi. It mainly houses foreign inmates convicted of serious crimes and is known for its harsh discipline and harsh conditions. If the sentence were condemned to death, this would be the most likely destination for Sancho.
Other relevant prisons are the Klong Prem Central Prisonalso considered one of the most dangerous in the country, and Thonburi Remand Prison, in Bangkok. The latter is known for housing various inmates serving sentences for crimes of a serious nature, which give rise to tense and dangerous situations.
In all of them, living conditions are unhealthy. The prisoners they sleep crowded in the cellsThere is a lack of hygiene that leads to the transmission of diseases, a lack of food, since they receive only one plate of rice a day, and the inmates usually wear shackles, in many cases soldiers.
The cases of Artur Segarra and Carlos Alcañiz
The recent crime committed by Daniel Sancho has reminded the case of Artur Segarra. The events occurred in 2016 when the Spanish citizen was sentenced to death for the kidnapping and murder of the businessman David Bernat in Bangkok. On Spanish soil, Segarra was being investigated by the Mossos D’Esquadra for alleged involvement in a fraud network.
Segarra, 44 years old, father of two children and originally from the Catalan municipality of Terrassa, confessed in December 2020 that he murdered the L’Albi businessman in a letter he addressed to the Thai monarch Maha Vajiralongkornin which he asked him to pardon the execution. Until then he had always defended his innocence. On the occasion of the monarch’s 68th birthday, this pardoned him and saved him from death.
Artur Segarra
The citizen of Terrassa is serving a sentence in prison —according to some media outlets— of Klong Prem along with three other Spanish inmates. Sancho would also have options to be admitted to this prison, known for housing a total of 6,000 overcrowded prisoners and in which control, as well as security, are very strict.
Meanwhile, Daniel Sancho continues in Koh Samui District Prisonwhere Carlos Alcañiz, a citizen also originally from the municipality of Terrassa, better known as Carlos ‘el Elegido’, is also imprisoned, as we told in elcierredigital.com. The Spaniard has been serving a sentence there since May 2020 after stabbing his friend and co-worker, the Chilean citizen René Patricio Guzmán, in the house he had rented in the Thai town of Ban Tai, located on the island of Koh Phangan.
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