Daniel Sancho, suspected in the murder of Colombian surgeon Edwin Arrieta, has already left the Koh Phangan police station under police escort. The son of actor Rodolfo Sancho thus left the place where he confessed to the crime, from where he is expected to be transferred by private boat to the neighboring island of Koh Samui, where a judge will decide whether to file official charges against the 29-year-old and his Possible imprisonment.
"I'm very well, they treat me very well," Sancho himself assured during what was his last day as a detainee. A night that has nothing to do with how he would have been if he had been arrested in Spain, because in the same conversation, Sancho confessed that he was having dinner in one of the best hotels on the island.
However, according to the young man, the chances of officially entering prison in the following hours are rather high. "Tomorrow I am with 20 people in the cell," he pointed out, knowing his possible fate after leaving the police station.
Sancho assured from the police station that "I want to collaborate in everything I can" in the investigation, and he has done so since he began to be interrogated as a suspect in the murder and dismemberment of the Colombian plastic surgeon Edwin Arrieta, to which he confessed guilty in front of to Thai police on Saturday.
The body of the Colombian surgeon was dismembered and the first remains, the pelvis and a right leg, were found in Koh Phangan on Thursday and Friday, respectively, according to the police report, which details that the limb was found in a landfill on the island. . As the police confirmed to EFE shortly after, the head was also recovered, in addition to having identified that the remains of the body belong to Arrieta.
For now, Sancho has pleaded guilty to the crime, assuring that despite assuming his guilt, he "was the hostage" of the Colombian surgeon. "He was holding me hostage. It was a glass cage, but it was a cage."
Sancho's family has hired a private office for the defense of the young man, although for the moment the Thai public defender continues to represent him. This new legal representation could begin his services when the young man is in Samui, also coinciding with the arrival of his father, Rodolfo Sancho, in Thailand.
According to the police report, Sancho arrived in the tourist area of Koh Phangan on Monday, July 31, being on August 1 when he bought knives and garbage bags in a store on the island. He himself adds that the surgeon would not have arrived on the island until Wednesday, August 2, Sancho being the one who went to pick him up at the point of arrival of the ferry from Samui.
After that first meeting, the two remained together until Thursday night, at which time Sancho reported Arrieta's disappearance to the Koh Phangan police station in the early hours of August 3.
