daniel sanchoactor’s son Rodolfo Sanchoconfessed this weekend before the Thai authorities to having murdered the 44-year-old Colombian surgeon Edwin Arrieta Arteaga on the island of Koh Phangan.
The grandson of Sancho Gracia, who arrived in Thailand on Monday July 31 and committed the alleged crime on Wednesday August 2, has been transferred this Monday the 7th to Koh Samui, where the Provincial Court will decide the progress of the case. In the next few hours he will go to court.
After confessing to the crime before the Thai authorities, Daniel himself explained to Efe this weekend: “I am guilty, but I was his hostage. He held me hostage. It was a glass cage, but it was a cage. He made me destroy the relationship with my girlfriend, he’s forced me to do things I never would have done.”
Precisely about his girlfriend, the 29-year-old chef has also spoken in the last few hours on WhatsApp with the summer program. He did it before going to court and while he was having dinner in a four-star hotel with the policemen who are guarding him: “May he be happy and get on with his life”, was the message he sent to his girlfriend from Thailand . The only thing known about the young woman is that she responds to the name of Paula.
Regarding his relationship with the victim, he has also said: “This man had me prisoner, he was threatening my entire family. If I didn’t do what he asked me… He told me that he already knew what Colombia was and what a man with 100 million dollars he was capable of making.
About what he told his father, Rodolfo Sancho, he has also clarified: “I did not dare to tell anyone anything. Nobody knew anything. I was even afraid that my mobile phone would be tapped.”
In a phone call with the same program, he also explained how he has spent the last few hours: “I’m fine, they treat me very well. The police treat me very well. I’m having dinner with them at the best hotel on the island. It’s the Anantara They have brought me here for dinner because they have closed the case and tomorrow I am with twenty people in a cell.” This Monday, as we said, it will go to court.
The alleged crime occurred on Wednesday, August 2, at a hotel on the island of Koh Phangan. Sancho is accused of murder and of tampering with the body by dismembering it into pieces to hide his remains.