This coming Tuesday, April 9, the trial against Daniel Sancho will begin in Thailand after being accused of murdering and dismembering the body of Colombian surgeon Edwin Arrieta last August on the Thai island of Koh Pha Ngan. The judicial process will begin at 9 in the morning, Thai time, 4 in the morning in Spain, and could last up to a month, since a total of fifty witnesses will testify.
Rodolfo Sancho's son could be sentenced to capital punishment, since the Thai Prosecutor's Office accuses him of premeditated murder, concealment of the body and destruction of other people's documentation. For its part, Sancho's defense will fight to prove that the death of the Colombian surgeon was a reckless homicide, since, according to Carmen Balfagón, spokesperson for the Sancho family, ''Edwin Arrieta died as a result of a fall during a fight''.
On Monday afternoon, the program Y Ahora Sonsoles, the evening magazine presented by Sonsoles Ónega, exclusively broadcast the testimony of one of the two protected witnesses in the trial against Daniel Sancho. ''We had a love relationship, it was quite complicated (...) We went out to lunch, dinner, shopping, we spent the day together,'' said the surgeon's alleged ex-lover.
However, the witness claimed that Arrieta had a double face. ''He was quite a possessive person. He wanted to control everything with the simple fact of the economic power he had. Everything had to be as he said, "he said. Furthermore, the protected witness confessed that at one point in the relationship he came to fear for his life. ''Edwin harassed me and threatened to kill me,'' he explained. .
After issuing the testimony, the Antena 3 space connected live to Thailand, where collaborator Carlos Quilez was accompanied by Juan Gonzalo Ospina, lawyer for Edwin Arrieta's family, who was against the unusual statement. ''It contributes absolutely nothing to the trial that is going to begin tomorrow, beyond discrediting, delegitimizing and attacking the honor and dignity of our client,'' he expressed.
Furthermore, the lawyer assured that "the defense's only escape was to discredit Arrieta's honor." ''Mr. Sancho is trying to put a smokescreen in front of a reality that we consider to be indisputable and irrefutable,'' he stated.
''You cannot say in a public medium that this is a trick by Mr. Sancho when you have not accredited that issue. "I am Rodolfo Sancho's lawyer and I have only said that we want the truth to appear in the trial," responded Carmen Balfagón, spokesperson for the Sancho family. However, Ospina assured moments later that she was referring exclusively to Daniel Sancho. ''We deny the profile portrayed by this supposed witness and what he seeks is to put a smokescreen on a murder,'' the lawyer asserted.
