Daniel Sancho will have to wait until August 29 to find out the judge’s decision on his involvement in the murder and dismemberment of the Colombian surgeon Edwin Arrieta in Thailand. Until then, he will have to remain in Koh Samui prison, where he has been held since he was detained in August last year.
Even so, it is more than likely that this ruling will not be final, since some of the parties will surely decide to appeal. Some involved in the process will have two months to present the final briefs. And it is exactly this long period of time that has surprised, although it has a very clear reason: “chaos”.
“August 29 we think that it could be the end, but that is not the case because almost 100% of the parties are not going to be satisfied with the result of the sentence. And if they decide to appeal to the Supreme Court, we have a Sancho case for a while,” said a reporter from the program Let’s see transferred to the Asian country.
And it is Marcos García-Montes himself, part of Daniel Sancho’s defense, who has stated in this same space that they will appeal “everything that is not reckless homicide.” Something that will have to wait four months because the translations during the trial have been somewhat “chaotic.”
The reporter has put on the table that at first the decision was expected to be known in “four or eight weeks,” according to judicial sources. Nothing could be further from the truth. “The translation since the beginning of this trial has been a complete disaster. First there was a translator into Spanish who did not translate well, then Rodolfo Sancho’s assistant helped, then the court itself provided another translator…”, he added.
Such has been the mess in this sense that the journalist calls what “all parties” have experienced with this issue “torture.” “Daniel himself, in his statements to the Prosecutor’s Office and lawyers, has on some occasions had to repeat the same words up to three times so that they are correctly reflected in all those documents,” he continued.
Therefore, these four months, from the end of the trial until August 29, will serve for everyone to ensure that the documents that the judge has received, which are used to determine the sentence, have a correct translation.
On that date it will be known whether Daniel Sancho is accused of having murdered Edwin Arrieta with premeditation or not, which everything indicates will be negative. And during the trial, many pieces of evidence and witnesses have been in line with the accused’s version of the events.
