The trial against the Spaniard Daniel Sancho, accused of the murder of the Colombian Edwin Arrieta, will be held from April 9 to May 3 next year in the court of Samui (Southern Thailand), as established this Tuesday by the judge in charge of the trial. case.
During a hearing held this Tuesday in the court on the island of Samui, the judge set the dates of the trial, which will take place over 15 working days and will take place from Tuesday to Friday.
The 29-year-old Spaniard, son of the actor Rodolfo Sancho and the investment analyst Silvia Bronchalo, who went to court this Tuesday, has been in provisional prison in Samui since August 7 and is defended in the Thai court by a lawyer ex officio.
The lawyer Aprichat Srinuel, assigned by the judge in the case on November 15, after the Spaniard rejected the services of his previous lawyer, also ex officio.
The objective of the prosecution will be to prove that Arrieta's death was due to a premeditated murder by Sancho, while the defense will seek to demonstrate that it was due to an accident during a fight between the two and that the Spaniard was the subject of alleged threats and harassment. on the part of the victim.
This Tuesday's hearing is a consequence of a postponement granted by the judge in another hearing on November 27, when he decided to extend the deadline for the presentation of evidence due to the numerous documentation and the fact that the defense lawyer was newly assigned. .
Sancho, son and grandson of actors in Spain, which gave high media interest to the case from the beginning, has pleaded not guilty to two of the three crimes of which the prosecution accuses him, premeditated murder and destruction of other people's documentation ( in reference to Arrieta's passport).
The accused has admitted a third, that of making parts of the victim's body disappear, found in various places on the island of Phangan (near Samui).
Sancho, 29, and Arrieta, the deceased 44-year-old Colombian plastic surgeon, had known each other since last year and met in Phangan on August 2, the day the alleged crime took place.
The young Spaniard was arrested on August 5 after confessing to the crime before the Thai Police, a country that contemplates the death penalty for premeditated murder.
