The trial against Daniel Sancho for the crime of Edwin Arrieta is already in the middle of its third week of sessions. A process in which Rodolfo Sancho’s son began with everything against him and that has changed over the days. And there is a lot of evidence and witnesses that would be in line with what the accused team’s strategy defends.
On the one hand, Daniel’s lawyers want to get him sentenced to manslaughter at most. On the other hand, the defense of the Arrieta family requested this premeditation, however, things have changed with the development of the trial.
“We are requesting that he be convicted of murder with premeditation or without premeditation. What happened on August 2 is part of a plan. However, if this is not proven and cannot be demonstrated, then we will accept it,” Juan confessed. Gonzalo Ospina leaving the Court for the first time in all these days.
And the magistrate asks for concrete evidence to prove everything, beyond Daniel’s initial statement. Something that I wouldn’t be getting, at the moment. “The prosecutor himself told us journalists without cameras yesterday that it is being very difficult to prove this premeditation,” said a reporter from the Let’s See program.
And all this is due to several key points, which they have not hesitated to include in the aforementioned program. Firstly, the two knives analyzed, which would be part of those used by the accused to carry out everything, would not be very illuminating. One of them contains only DNA from Daniel, and the other, from three people: the detainee, the victim and a third, whose identity is unknown.
Although the police stated that this last utensil was collected on August 4, two days after the crime, the owner of the resort where it was found denies this. “The police went to that hotel 11 days later in search of that lost knife” and, when it was not there, the witness provided them with another one from another villa that “surprisingly contains remains of these three people.”
But not only that. Of the entire shopping list that Sancho allegedly made, and that the police provided, only one glove and a sheet with remains of Edwin Arrieta. “The scouring pads have been analyzed, everything that Daniel bought. Everything that he bought has been found. Everything has been analyzed and there is only Daniel’s DNA,” said Carmen Balfagón, the accused’s lawyer.
Added to this is the fact that the autopsy does not show a cause of death. Even so, wounds from before death can be seen “as a result of punches that Daniel Sancho himself has recognized in the heat of a fight.”
Now we just have to wait for this Thursday to arrive so that the judge can hear Daniel Sancho’s statement, which could end up tipping the balance to one side or the other. A session that should have taken place this Wednesday and that could not take place due to a power outage at the Koh Samui Court.
