Daniel Sancho is about to serve three months in Koh Samui prison awaiting the judge's final decision. Rodolfo Sancho's son confessed to having murdered and dismembered Colombian surgeon Edwin Arrieta in Thailand. A crime that is contemplated in article 289.4 of its Penal Code, which imposes the death penalty for the accused.
Last week, the Prosecutor's Office issued its final report in which the chef is accused of premeditated murder, concealment of the body and destruction of other people's documentation. Given this, Sancho's defense in Spain has planned an extensive strategy to delegitimize the investigation process. Something that, according to one of the prosecutors has confessed to the program Let's see, it is very unlikely that he will achieve.
The defense strategy of Daniel Sancho, led by the office of Marcos García Montes, is based on three key points to obtain the annulment of the proceedings. One of them is that the accused was not accompanied by a lawyer at the time of his confession. Something that the member of the Prosecutor's Office interviewed by the aforementioned program wanted to clarify.
According to this prosecutor, it is true that the first confession was without a lawyer, but it was completely voluntary. Already during the reconstruction, and in the subsequent processes, it did have a legal representative.
Another key point in Daniel Sancho's defense is that he had not had a Spanish translator in his confession. For this, the Prosecutor's Office is clear: although they did not have this translator in the accused's native language, "Daniel was asked if he wanted a translator in English, and he accepted." Likewise, Thai law does not require documents to be translated, as the official language is Thai.
But if there is something that the prosecution has wanted to make clear, it is that the defense's claim that there was no premeditation does not hold up, and that is that "the evidence is enormous." Among other things, there are two confessions from Sancho.
Likewise, the Prosecutor's Office is clear that the knives that Daniel Sancho bought were not for cooking, as his defense states. And there is DNA from the chef and Edwin Arrieta in these utensils.
"There is no exact cause of death, but there is no evidence of bruises or blows to the body. There is evidence of dismemberment," said a journalist from the program, transferring the interviewee's words.
