The case of the murder of Edwin Arrieta at the hands of Daniel Sancho is once again on the agenda. Rodolfo Sancho's son confessed last August to having murdered and dismembered the body of the well-known Colombian surgeon on the Thai island of Ko Pha Ngan. Since then, the Spanish chef remains in provisional detention in Koh Samui prison awaiting trial.
The media case generated a great flurry of comments and speculation, and although new information had not come to light for weeks, this past Friday, January 12, the crime once again took a new turn totally unexpected by Daniel's lawyers. Sancho.
The law firm Chippirrás-Balfagón and Marcos García Montes called a press conference, in which they revealed new information and threw endless accusations at the Thai police, accusing them of negligence and of having blackmailed the alleged murderer into confessing to the murder of Arrieta.
After the media press conference, Marcos García Montes went to the TardeAR set this Monday to reveal more information about the line of defense they will carry out. ''Daniel Sancho was deceived. "The defense is trying to prove that the murder was in self-defense," he declared. ''We don't even know when he died, nor do we know how,'' the lawyer said. ''Your line of defense is that part of the corpse has not appeared, ''we don't know what happened,'' collaborator Marlaska told him.
''What we do know is the injuries that Daniel had, which is in the procedure and an injury that the deceased had in the occipital and from here we have full confidence in the kingdom of Thailand and its lawyers,'' he asserted. ''You're not that confident when you say that an agreement was reached in a bad way with him,'' the journalist responded. ''I trust the judges in Thailand, but the police did it wrong and the only thing we have done is read the summary, study it and say what there is,'' the lawyer said.
Regarding the witnesses who will attend the trial, García Montes explained that all the prosecutor's witnesses and "witnesses who are linked to the facts, who know the subject, and Thai and Spanish witnesses have been voluntarily offered to us" will attend. ''Daniel Sancho did not have insurmountable fear of Edwin Arrieta. What happens is that that day and according to what he declares there is an attempted rape and a fight and the death occurs and there is no more,'' the lawyer pointed out.
Furthermore, he assures that they are convinced that they will be able to avoid the death penalty. ''We trust because it is an objective court and we are sure that it cannot approve evidence that could be admitted in any country in the world,'' he stressed. Regarding how they were going to justify the dismemberment of the corpse, the lawyer pointed out that it was "a desecration of corpses that carries a penalty of one year or a fine."
