Rodolfo Sancho has a strategy to help his son Daniel and reduce the crime of murder with premeditation to the crime of reckless homicide
This change could avoid the death penalty and would also buy time to make other plans.
According to the magazine ‘Lecturas’, Rodolfo Sancho He has a strategy to help his son Daniel and reduce the crime of premeditated murder to reckless homicide. This change could avoid the death penalty and would also buy time to make other plans.
The cook, son of the interpreters Rodolfo Sancho and Silvia Bronchalo, had confessed to the murder and dismemberment of the Colombian surgeon Edwin Arrieta in Thailand. Last week his first visit to the Prosecutor’s Office was postponed, since the Spaniard did not have a translator to be able to address the jury, as he had requested.
Lawyer Marcos García Montes is in charge of coordinating the defense of Daniel Sancho from Spain. The strategy is to obtain the annulment of the actions based on the fact that the accused did not have an official translator during the entire investigation. In fact, not even when the cook reconstructed the events, confessing to the crime.
According to the defense, the translator, who usually works with the police, he translated the accused in a partial and interested manner. From this point, the defense wants to dismantle the theory that premeditated murder is based on two elements. First, resort to the fight between Daniel and Edwin that same night, with threats from the Colombian to harm his family.
During the fight, The surgeon would have bitten the cook on the arm. There would be a mark of it and a forensic dentist should confirm through a mold of Edwin Arrieta’s teeth.. Finally, the second element is the visa, document that proves that Sancho planned to leave the country 20 days after the crimeso the murder was not planned.