This Tuesday, April 9, the trial for the murder and dismemberment of Edwin Arrieta in Thailand. During the second session, this Wednesday, the judge prohibited the media from reporting on the development of the litigation. However, news continues to arrive from the Asian country, where both Rodolfo Sancho as Silvia Bronchalo They accompany their child during the sessions. There was a tense meeting this Wednesday after the complaint of harassment filed by the mother of the confessed perpetrator of the murder against the actor.
At the end of this Thursday’s session, where Daniel’s parents met again, The Spanish lawyer of the Arrieta family, Juango Ospina, has revealed that they would be willing to negotiate: “If there was any approach we would be happy to evaluate it. We do not seek revenge, we seek justice. We don’t want to do more damage than is being done. “We have already said on some occasion that everyone here has lost.”
However, he explained that at the moment they have not received any proposal from the defense of Sancho Gracia’s grandson, who continues to insist on his innocence. “It was self-defense. It happened due to an incident in which there were only two people involved. We affirm that he had no intention [de matar a Arrieta]”Apirchat Srinual, the Thai public defender who defends Sancho, reiterated this Thursday.
Among the witnesses who participated in the third session are Inspector Ekachai Kamprakon, who was in charge of preparing the report on the security cameras that followed Daniel’s trail on the island, and also Colonel Parinya Tanthasuwan, the first agent who saw Rodolfo and Silvia’s son after the crime, when the young man went to the police station to report the disappearance of the Colombian doctor. Both have confirmed everything they said in the reports, maintaining that there is evidence that leads to the murder being premeditated.
The Prosecutor’s Office – who accuses Sancho of premeditated murder and two other crimes, concealment of the body and destruction of documentation, with the death penalty as the maximum punishment – has also presented more evidence to support that he would have premeditatedly murdered Arrieta. Among them, the drawing that Sancho himself made detailing in detail the parts into which he dismembered the body of the Colombian surgeon.
The chef, shackled hand and foot and with numerous wounds and bruises from the chains, will not sit in the dock again for six days, since this Friday until Tuesday is a holiday in Thailand for Songkran or Buddhist New Year. It will be next Wednesday when the trial resumes. His defense team is trying to prove that it was a “reckless homicide” after a fight in which the Spanish cook defended himself against an attempted sexual assault by the surgeon.
First image of Daniel since the start of the trial
This Thursday the first image of the young man since the sessions started was also published. He appears with a beard. From Europa Press They slip that the young man has behaved these days in a “vehement” manner, introducing “leading” questions with “challenging looks” and issuing “value judgments”, for which the judge would have called him to order. It must be remembered that in the Asian country it is allowed for the accused to ask questions to the witnesses.
In this sense, in The world They emphasize that “Sancho is putting on a show at the trial”: “He has a very defiant attitude and the atmosphere in the courtroom is very dense. Daniel seems to live in a parallel world, which has no limits. The judge allows him to question witnesses at the end of his intervention. Then, he gets up, drags the chains and begins to ask nonsense questions,” a source present at the trial tells the aforementioned newspaper. Sancho, on the other hand, has shown his dissatisfaction with the interpreter who translates from Spanish to Thai, and vice versa. His defense, according to Mornings y 20 minutes, asked the court to only use the translator that his family has hired, and who is present in the courtroom. Although she only translates from English to Thai.
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