Important day for the Spanish chef Daniel Sancho. The son of actor Rodolfo Sancho has been in jail for more than three months awaiting trial for an alleged crime of premeditated murder of Colombian surgeon Edwin Arrieta, a person with whom he went on a trip to Thailand last August.
After reporting the doctor's disappearance, the Asian country's police investigated the situation and interrogated the young accused, who ended up confessing that he had killed his 'friend' and that he had dismembered and hidden the body. At first, he justified the facts under the premise that the doctor was harassing him and declared that he felt like a "hostage."
After changing their version several times, sources close to the family have told EFE that Silvia Bronchalo's son appeared this morning before the court on the island of Samui and pleaded not guilty to the premeditated murder of the surgeon.
At this hearing, the prosecutor in the case read the charges attributed to the young man: premeditated murder, concealment of the body and destruction of other people's documentation. After a few weeks of uncertainty and many doubts about what the young man would declare, he has denied the premeditated murder of the Colombian, as well as denied having made his passport disappear. However, after stating that Arrieta's death was an accident, he has admitted that he dismembered and hid the body.
At the moment, more details about the young chef's statements are unknown, but everything indicates that his intervention in court is part of a 'useful' strategy to try to get away from the idea of premeditation, which would mean the death penalty or life imprisonment.
It should be said that the competent authorities of the Asian country took several months to determine that Sancho should be tried for premeditated murder. After studying the chronology of the events, the Police wrote a report (which was passed on to the Prosecutor's Office) in which they stated that the young accused had everything planned to carry out the crime: he had already bought the tools with which he dismembered the body, I knew what I had to do to hide the body, etc.
According to sources close to the parties and the legal procedure, the 29-year-old defendant was accompanied for the first time by an interpreter who translated the conversation from Thai to Spanish and vice versa.
Such assistance would have been very useful for Sancho, who had already complained on previous occasions of having problems with the language and of not being on equal terms with other defendants due to the language barrier.
