The blackmail to which Daniel Sancho was subjected by the assassinated Colombian doctor is, according to the Thai press, what led the son of actor Rodolfo Sancho and grandson of Sancho Gracia to commit the crime.
The 29-year-old Spaniard began planning the murder of Edwing Arrieta when he threatened to spread the intimate images he had in his possession, according to the Bangkok Post, citing police sources, and referring to the Spanish police statement. detained and remanded in Koh Samui jail in southern Thailand. Sancho pleaded guilty before a judge and admitted to having dismembered the surgeon.
The grandson of the protagonist of Curro Jiménez explained that he met Arrieta a year later and said that they had contacted through Instagram; afterwards, they talked on the phone and exchanged some photos.
Daniel, who arrived in Thailand on July 30 after spending a few days in Formentera with a group of friends, admits in his statement that they had sexual relations and that the Colombian gave him 10,000 euros and a credit card to open a restaurant in Spain. .
But, as we already anticipated, and after confirming it in different sources from Daniel’s group of friends, the young man is not homosexual, he even dated at least a few weeks ago, with a young woman, a car businesswoman, whom, by the way, , he sent some images from his mobile when he had allegedly already murdered the surgeon. “He has forced me to do things that he would never have done,” said the detainee.
According to the Thai press, Arrieta was angry when, after giving him money, Daniel Sancho rejected him as a lover and even told him that he wanted to go back to his girlfriend. It was then that the surgeon allegedly blackmailed him into publishing the private photos they had shared on social networks, a threat that Daniel understood would have caused damage to the image of his father, the well-known actor Rodolfo Sancho, if carried out. even from his grandfather, a legend of Spanish cinema, who died 11 years ago this August 8.
According to the investigation, Sancho, under pressure, made the decision to murder his doctor friend and invited him to spend the popular Full Moon Party. He reserved a hotel room and another on the beach of Hat Salat, to hide there the tools that he had bought with the purpose, allegedly, of killing and dismembering the victim.
The doctor agreed, seduced by Sancho’s tempting invitation, and on August 3 he arrived on the island. Indeed, he stayed with Sancho, who went to look for him on a motorcycle at the Hat Salat hotel. Police later searched the hotel room where the murder took place and found $80,000 and a gold necklace belonging to the Colombian. It was there where, according to Sancho himself, the Colombian had asked him for sex. Sancho hit him and knocked him unconscious. He waited for him to regain consciousness but when he didn’t wake up, he cut him into pieces for three hours. At nine o’clock at night, Sancho went to buy a kayak where he packed a backpack and several bags with Arrieta’s parts and then threw them into the sea and into a landfill on the island.