The Samui Provincial Court has held this Tuesday the hearing in which the defense and the prosecution have presented their evidence and witnesses in the case of Daniel Sanchoaccused of the murder of the Colombian Edwin Arrieta, and the judge has set the trial date, which will take place from April 9 to May 3. It will take place during weekdays, from Tuesday to Friday. Sancho Gracia's grandson learned the news about him on his fourth visit to the courts, in which he could be seen very serious, with his head shaved and his face covered by a mask.
The young chef has been transferred from Koh Samui prison to the courts. His parents, the actor, have also been in court. Rodolfo Sancho and the investment analyst Silvia Bronchalo, who also went separately to court on November 27. Since August 7, it has been in provisional prison and is defended in the Thai court by a court-appointed lawyer. The lawyer is Aprichat Srinuel, assigned by the judge in the case on November 15, after he rejected the services of his previous lawyer, also ex officio.
The Prosecutor's Office aims to prove that Arrieta's death was due to a premeditated murder by Sancho, while the defense seeks to prove the opposite to avoid a possible death penalty. They allege that Rodolfo Sancho's son was the subject of alleged threats and harassment by the victim. Sancho has pleaded not guilty to two of the three crimes of which the Prosecutor's Office accuses him, premeditated murder and destruction of other people's documentation (in reference to Arrieta's passport).
The accused Yes, a third party has admitted, that of making parts of the victim's body disappear., found in various places on the island of Phangan (near Samui). Sancho, 29, and Arrieta, the deceased 44-year-old Colombian plastic surgeon, had known each other since last year and met in Phangan on August 2, the day the alleged crime took place. The young man was arrested on August 5 after confessing to the crime before the Thai Police, a country that contemplates the death penalty for premeditated murder.