Spaniard Daniel Sancho remains in provisional prison on the Thai island of Samui, where he is awaiting trial for the murder of Colombian Edwin Arrieta. In parallel, the Police are finalizing the investigation to clarify the events that occurred at the beginning of last August. The case is progressing and Asian authorities are collecting all possible evidence, although they have not yet been able to gather three key pieces of evidence.
Some parts of the body, the knife and the saw that Rodolfo Sancho’s son allegedly used to end the life of the Colombian surgeon are still missing, according to the La Sexta Investigative Team program.
A few days after the investigation report is delivered to the Prosecutor’s Office, the Thai agents would continue looking for some evidence that would confirm that Sancho would have been the author of the murder, as he confessed, although he justified his actions: “He forced me to do it.” things I would never have done.”
Although some evidence is missing, the authorities do have Sancho’s movements recorded that night, thanks to the recording of the security cameras. The Spaniard was not aware that the island of Koh Phangan is practically a closed circuit television.
According to the reconstruction carried out by this program, one of the cameras captures how Daniel rents a motorcycle for a period of ten days. The young man picks up Edwin Arrieta from the Koh Phangan pier to take him to the apartment on August 2. It is the last time he would be seen alive. After an hour, Sancho is captured alone and walking along the sea with a bag.
Rodolfo Sancho’s son pays a thousand euros for a canoe. He then enters and leaves the room several times. “There are several times that Daniel Sancho is going to enter and leave that room where the crime was committed,” Gema Peñalosa, El Mundo journalist, explains to La Sexta. At one point, he takes the motorcycle, leaves with a bag and spends three hours outside, during which he had been able to get rid of the surgeon’s body.
Sancho, 29, was arrested on August 5 on the tourist island of Phangan, south of Thailand and neighboring Samui, after confessing to the murder and dismemberment of Colombian surgeon Edwin Arrieta three days earlier.
