2024-04-25 06:38:00
Daniel Sancho, during his arrest Stringer | Reuters
The court has prioritized the testimony of the agents, with which the defense intends to demonstrate that the Spaniard was detained for two days without an arrest warrant.
25 abr 2024 . Updated at 8:48 a.m.
The defense’s turn in the trial of Daniel Sancho in Thailand for the alleged murder of Colombian Edwin Arrieta began this Thursday with the testimony of five police officers, which delays that of the accused and makes it unlikely that he will testify today as planned.
In the morning session, which began around 10:00 a.m. (GMT+7), one hour late, at the Samui Provincial Court (southern Thailand), two immigration police officers declared that they had revoked Sancho’s visa before of being formally detained on the nearby island of Phangan, where the alleged crime took place on August 2.
In this afternoon’s session, according to Efe, three other police officers involved in Sancho’s arrest are scheduled to testify, with the defense’s objective of demonstrating that He was detained between August 3 and 5 without an arrest warrant.
Although Sancho was scheduled to be the first to testify today, the court’s decision to give priority to the agents, who were sent to Samui to testify, would in principle mean that the Spaniard would not testify until Friday, which cannot be confirmed until conclude the afternoon session in a trial that since its beginning on April 9 has taken place behind closed doors.
Sancho’s lawyer, Apirchat Srinual, declared at the doors of the court during the recess that he had asked the judge that Sancho testify tomorrow and highlighted the electricity problems that continue to exist in the courtroom, without light or air conditioning, which yesterday shortened the view.
For his part, the prosecutor, Jeerawat Sawatdichai, indicated today that he has many questions to ask the Spaniard, and that he needs almost an entire day to ask them.
According to the court calendar, in today’s session the father of the accused, the Spanish actor Rodolfo Sancho, was also scheduled to testify, who entered the court this morning without making statements, although it is practically ruled out that he will testify this Thursday.
Daniel Sancho’s mother, investment analyst Silvia Bronchalo, also entered the courthouse in silence.
Daniel Sancho, after the crime of Edwin Arrieta: While I was cutting up the body, I got angry and stuck the knife in his face
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Sancho, 29, who is transported daily to court in a police van from the nearby Samui prison, where he has been in provisional detention since August 7, is accused of the premeditated murder of Colombian plastic surgeon Edwin Arrieta on August 2 in Phangan.
The young man initially confessed to the premeditated murder of Arrieta in front of the police, but later claimed that it was an accident, insisting that Arrieta’s death occurred during a fight in self-defense.
The Spanish-Colombian lawyer in Spain for Arrieta’s family, Juan Gonzalo Ospina, who did not enter the courtroom today, showed at the doors of the court his conviction that contradictions are going to emerge (in Sancho’s testimony), like those that already existed. in other statements.
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