Silvia Bronchalo has visited his son, Daniel Sancho, this Thursday at noon in the Koh Samui prison in Thailand where the young man has been since he was arrested for murdering and dismembering Colombian surgeon Edwin Arrieta. Bronchalo has arrived by taxi accompanied by two people from the Spanish embassy in Bangkok, she has remained in prison for an hour and a half and has left without speaking to the abundant Spanish press that had waited for her under the heat. She is she had agreed that she would not ask questions out of respect for her silence and in healthy contrast to the infamous siege suffered by her family home where an eight-year-old girl lives.
The son of actor Rodolfo Sancho has received a visit from his mother after the end of the period of isolation
The first visit to a Thai prison requires the mediation of the embassy but not the following ones, according to prison sources, which will speed up the pace of future visits to Sancho.
The meeting between mother and son has coincided with the end of the quarantine due to the anti-covid protocol still in force in Thai penitentiaries. Sancho, accused of premeditated murder and concealment of the body, had not been associated in the last ten days with more than the prison staff, his lawyers and the police from the neighboring island of Koh Panghan.
Visits and video calls
From this Thursday you can meet in person with your relatives, separated by glass, and carry out video calls. The prison management has ended his isolation in the infirmary but they have not sent him to the main module but to the hospital wing, wider and with a lower density of prisoners. Family representatives had warned that moving him to the main module threatened his physical integrity, due to the risk of suicide and assaults. It sounds like a Solomonic solution: the government of the South Asian country would be so displeased if something happened to Sancho with the media spotlight pointing at him as setting a precedent of favorable treatment over local inmates.
In the coquettish prison of Koh Samui, sunk in a leafy valley in the south of the country and with prisoners serving sentences under 15 years of age, Sancho will remain until the conclusion of the trial. The hefty sentence provided will lead him to the arid prisons of the capital. His condition, beyond the logical distress, does not concern the prison management.
Sancho, son of the famous actor Rodolfo Sancho, entered the center after the preventive detention order issued last Monday. The police maintained this Tuesday, barely two weeks after the defendant killed and dismembered the Colombian surgeon Edwin Arrieta in a hotel, that they had already completed their investigations and gathered enough evidence to support the premeditated crime and executed alone. “Death penalty,” repeated Surachate Hakparn, the powerful and highly publicized deputy director of the national police, when he was asked about the punishment deserved.
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A day later, however, agents from the island of Koh Panghan traveled to neighboring Koh Samui to question the confessed murderer for the fifth time. The autopsy is still missing to clarify if Arrieta was killed by the knife in the left pectoral or the blow to the head against the bathtub when he fell. The police maintain that these fringes will not change their conclusions but will buttress them in the oral phase of the trial.
Sancho’s family had stated in a previous statement that “I was very sorry for the death of Edwin & rdquor; and that he would not speak to the press to respect “such a painful moment & rdquor; suffered by both families.