had said the thailand police that four interrogations to daniel sancho and the accumulation of evidence against him were enough. This Wednesday, however, agents from the Koh Panghan police station went to the neighboring Koh Samui Island to take him again statement in prison. New revelations are not foreseeable: except for the innocence claimed in the first statement, the accused of killing and dismembering the plastic surgeon Edwin Arrieta, with whom he had a relationship, has been extremely cooperative in the investigations, the reconstruction of the crime and the recovery of the remains of the corpse.
The trip corroborates that the investigation has not ended despite the press conference offered on Tuesday to present the conclusions. Still to go find passport, mobile phone and other personal belongings from the Colombian doctor. also missing the autopsy result to specify that he killed Arrieta. The police assured that during a fight Sancho stabbed his victim in the left chest and he broke his neck against the bathtub in the fall, but they still do not know if he died from the former or the latter. The evidence presented at the press conference was a T-shirt with a hole compatible with a knife blade and without a drop of blood.
The police have not yet presented the brief with their conclusions to the Prosecutor’s Office so that it can examine them, request the corresponding sentence and can begin the oral phase of the trial. This could last three months if Sancho reiterates his confession of guilt, or more than double if he retracts it.
Thai law grants the police 84 days to complete their investigations since the judge ordered provisional detention last Monday for the crimes of premeditated murder and concealment of the body. Barely nine have elapsed and it doesn’t seem like it will last longer. The deputy director of the police, Surachate Hakparn, insisted on Tuesday that they already had plenty of evidence to prove the premeditated murder in the trial and ruled out the presence of accomplices. The police ask for him the death penaltyAlthough that is for the prosecution to decide.
This pace, as fast as it is strange in Thailand, has been explained by the interest of its Government in shelving the matter, although it is more likely that the low complexity of the case had an influence. The police counted on the Sancho’s confession and evidence as compelling as the receipts for his purchases of knives and a saw on the eve of Arrieta’s arrival on the island.
Sancho The ten days of isolation will end this Thursday that orders the anticovid protocol. The procedure contemplates that he be sent to the pavilion with the rest of the prisoners, but it is likely that the prison authorities will extend his stay in the infirmary to avoid suicide or aggression.
The end of isolation will allow you to receive the family visit. In fact, her mother, Silvia Bronchalo, Rodolfo Sancho’s ex-wife, is traveling to Thailand to meet her son this Thursday, according to the program ‘En boca de todos’ (Cuatro).
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Sancho will remain in the Koh Samui prison, considered friendly by Thai standards and where prisoners with sentences of less than 15 years are gathered, until the trial is over. A hefty sentence, predictably, could send you to the fearsome Bangkok jails.
The interest that crime continues to generate in Spain contrasts with the loss of steam in Thailand. Only a couple of local journalists approached the police press conference on Tuesday despite the presence of the media Surachate, alias ‘Big Joke’.