These are not being easy days for Rodolfo Sancho. His son, Daniel Sancho, has been in provisional detention since last Monday in the Koh Samui jail, Thailand, after admitting to having murdered and allegedly dismembered the surgeon Edwin Arrieta. "I am guilty, but I was Edwin's hostage. He held me hostage. It was a glass cage, but it was a cage. He made me destroy my relationship with my girlfriend, he forced me to do things that I would never have done, "he confessed. .
Throughout the days many details have emerged. The young man would have declared that he killed the Colombian after he blackmailed him by posting intimate content on social networks that could have sunk his reputation and that of his family. But if this news has surprised half the world, it has surprised his father even more. The actor from The Ministry of Time has not hesitated to take the first flight to Thailand to visit his son before the trial.
Daniel Sancho faces two possible scenarios after having confessed to the crime: he could be sentenced to death or life imprisonment in a country jail. So it is not surprising that Rodolfo Sancho is worried about the future that awaits his son. In any case, if something is certain, it is that his firstborn was not expected to commit such an act.
Europa Press issued a statement from the actor after what happened. In this, the man from Madrid asked for "maximum respect" for his son and his family in these "so delicate" moments. In addition, he urged the media to refrain from "passing any hasty judgment on the latest developments."
"I ask that information that could interfere in the development of justice and in the correct procedure of the investigation, as well as any diplomatic action that could be in progress, not be released," he continued. As soon as this statement came out, he was heading to Thailand.
Semana magazine has published the next steps for Rodolfo Sancho, who is totally "destroyed". The first thing he did when he arrived in Bangkok was to hire a Thai criminal lawyer to defend his son. He was found with the help of the Spanish Embassy in the country and is an expert in international law.
To best cope with these hard moments, Sancho is together with Silvia Bronchalo, also an actress, and Daniel's mother. And it is that, as Khun Anan, the aforementioned lawyer, has informed him, they will not be able to visit his son until August 17, since, by Covid protocol, they have to comply with 10 days of isolation. Meanwhile, they are drawing up a plan.
For their part, the family of Edwin Arrieta, the deceased, has not hesitated to ask for justice in the media. ''We are devastated, Daniel Sancho has not only dismembered Edwin, but he dismembered my family, he ripped our hearts out alive. Daniel Sancho organized it and made it conscious. I ask that Daniel Sancho pay for what he did to my brother," said the surgeon's sister in Y Ahora Sonsoles.
