Daniel Sancho pleads ‘not guilty’ of the murder of Edwin Arrieta but guilty of dismembering him: it was an accident

Daniel Sancho declared himself not guilty this Monday of the premeditated murder of the Colombian surgeon Edwin Arrieta in Thailand, during a court hearing on the island of Samu. Sancho, 29, said during the hearing that the surgeon’s death was due to an accident.

The son of actor Rodolfo Sancho, in provisional prison since last August 7, denied being guilty of the premeditated murder of the Colombian on the island of Phangan, as well as of making his passport disappear, two of the three charges against him, but found guilty of dismembering and hiding his body. This statement is part of a defense strategy to try to get away from the idea of ​​premeditation, which would mean death penalty or life imprisonment.

After one in the afternoon this Monday in Thailand (just after seven in the morning this Monday, peninsular time), we knew that the Spanish chef Daniel Sancho and son of the actor Rodolfo Sancho was pleading ‘not guilty’. Sancho has been accompanied for the first time by an interpreter who has been translating the conversation from Thai to Spanish and vice versa.

He had been in jail for three months and a week awaiting trial for an alleged crime of premeditated murder of Colombian surgeon Edwin Arrieta in Thailand last August. After reporting the doctor’s disappearance, the Asian country’s police investigated the situation and questioned the Spaniard, who ended up confessing that he had killed his ‘friend’ and had dismembered her and hidden the chopped up body in different places.

Defense strategy

After changing their version several times, sources close to the family have stated that Sancho Gracia’s grandson appeared before the court on the island of Samui this Monday and pleaded not guilty to the premeditated murder of the surgeon. Let us remember that at first he argued that the doctor was harassing him and declared that he felt like a ”hostage”

At the hearing, the prosecutor in the case read the charges attributed to the young man: premeditated murder, concealment of the body and destruction of other people’s documentation. After a few weeks of uncertainty and many doubts about what the young man would declare, Daniel has denied the premeditated murder of the Colombian, as well as having his passport disappear. However, after stating that Arrieta’s death was an accident, he did He has admitted that he dismembered and hid the body.