The police continue to leak information to the media about the murder of the Colombian surgeon who accompanied daniel sancho in Thailand. According to the statement of the son of Rodolfo Sanchowho admitted to having murdered Edwin Arrieta after being questioned by local agents, had planned the crime in detail: “It took me three hours to dismember it.”
According to Bangkok Post, Sancho would have confirmed that he had had sexual relations with Arrieta for months and that when he wanted to end them, he would have threatened to spread images of both of them in an explicit attitude through social networks to generate a media scandal that would sink the family Sancho in Spain. The young chef, who has entered preventive detention on Monday awaiting trial, said he was “desperate” about the situation and this would have led him to plan the murder of the Colombian, whom he killed with two punches in the bathroom of the room that they shared on Koh Phangan.
It happened in the early morning of August 2-3. After verifying that Arrieta was dead, Sancho dismembered him with the help of knives and a saw that he had bought a few days before, always according to the police version. “It took me three hours to dismember it,” Daniel would have declared at the police station. Wrapped in garbage bags, the victim’s pieces were scattered among landfills, garbage cans and the sea, which Sancho agreed to after buying a kayak for a thousand euros.
The boat is one of the key pieces of evidence in the process, and yet it is stranded on the beach, within the reach of tourists and the curious. Spanish reporters who traveled to the scene have found other evidence of the investigation in bins near the hotel where the crime took place, such as gloves and other organic materials.