The Arrieta family’s lawyer is outraged after Sancho’s statement and shoots at the Spanish Embassy: “I don’t like this at all”

Quiet, without covering up and in a van with untinted windows, this is how he arrived this Tuesday, April 30, Daniel Sancho to the Koh Samui court to testify again in the trial for the murder and dismemberment of the surgeon Edwin Arrieta, in which his defense tries to demonstrate that the crime was not premeditated to avoid the death penalty or life imprisonment. The lawyer of the murdered Colombian doctor has spoken about it.

Once again, Juan Gonzalo Ospina has expressed indignation. He assures that the chef’s attitude during this last session has been similar to the previous ones: “He has never shown his regret and that is how it was today too.. “She has had more than enough time to ask for forgiveness and yet she continues without showing any type of regret to the Arrieta family.”

In this sense, the lawyer has explained in This is life: “I think it is always good to empathize with the pain of a family that has been left helpless. If he had been my client, I would have recommended him to apologize.“. And he reaffirmed: “Daniel’s attitude has been defiant and compatible with that line of denial and irresponsibility that has been seen again today in his statement.”

Outraged with the Spanish Embassy

The presence of the Spanish vice consul in Thailand at the trial against the young man has also generated a great debate and especially great confusion among the Arrieta family. About this, Ospina has said: “We came to speak with different members of the Diplomatic Corps. They had never seen this kind of international observer in any procedure, also paid by all Spaniards and in a case in which Daniel Sancho is a confessed dismemberer. “.

Regarding this, Sandra Barneda reminded him that in other countries this presence is not necessary since the crimes are not punishable by the death penalty or life imprisonment. However, Ospina has reiterated that what bothers him is the continuous presence of this figure: “The fact that he has gone every day, if not someone from the consular office, It’s an implicit message that I don’t like at all.. “The authorities do not interfere in the country’s judicial procedures because it could be an attack on judicial independence.”

And he hinted: “I find it at least striking”insisting that for him “something like this is not common,” “neither here nor in our beloved Spain.”

“There has been a 180 degree turn”

Ospina has also commented on the images of Daniel Sancho’s lawyer, Marcos García-Montes, having a drink with the prosecutor in the case: “When someone has a trial of these characteristics, they have to know how to maintain manners”has manifested. “I would not have gone, even as a lawyer for the prosecution, to have a drink with the prosecutor or any Thai authority”.

However, he evaluates some procedures positively, such as the fact that the Thai magistrate did not accept this Tuesday the request of Sancho’s defense to postpone his statement: “I think it was very good.”

The lawyer has also questioned what García-Montes transmitted about the prosecutor almost ruling out the death penalty or life imprisonment against Sancho Gracia’s grandson: “There has been a 180 degree turn and we are back to where everything had to be to continue with the oral trial”.

Ospina and the Arrieta family continue to maintain that the murder was premeditated and do not lose hope that this will be proven before Thai justice. This Wednesday, May 1, the trial resumes with the second part of the chef’s son’s statement. Rodolfo and Silvia Bronchalo accompany his son in Thailand and his testimony as a witness is still pending. The trial ends this Friday the 3rd.