Silvia Bronchalo's lawyer sees Daniel Sancho's future as optimistic: "Nothing is as it is being told"

There is already a date for the trial against Daniel Sancho for the alleged murder of Colombian surgeon Edwin Arrieta. The son of actor Rodolfo Sancho and Silvia Bronchalo will learn his prison fate next spring, in a process that promises to be one of the most high-profile to date, given his relevance.

A trial that is already expected to have at least 57 witnesses among all parties. Until then, the Prosecutor’s Office, the lawyers for Arrieta’s family and the Spaniard’s defense team – which includes the public defender Aprichat Srinuel – continue to gather information for that date.

A race against time, since a sentence to capital punishment, still legal in the Asian country, is at stake. However, Carolina Castro, lawyer for the accused’s mother, has launched a new hypothesis, and is at least “optimistic” about what is to come.

Castro made some statements to the Cuatro al Día program in which he launched a new hypothesis, and that is that he assured that things “are in a different way than they have been told and narrated” and that the defense will present “a series of evidence and witnesses, which will change the story of the events.”

Furthermore, regarding the hard work of the convicted man’s defense team, Castro was firm: “All the people who work in Sancho’s defense are convinced that there will not be a conviction.

Sancho, 29, was arrested on August 5 in Koh Phangan, one of the main tourist destinations in the Asian country, after declaring himself the perpetrator of the crime to the police. His confession was key for the Thai Police, since it is a country that still contemplates the death penalty for premeditated murder, a crime of which the prosecution accuses Sancho.

Sancho, for his part, has pleaded not guilty to two of the three crimes of which the prosecution accuses him, premeditated murder and destruction of other people’s documentation (in reference to Arrieta’s passport). The accused has admitted a third, that of making parts of the victim’s body disappear, found in various places on the island of Phangan.

Sancho and Arrieta, the deceased 44-year-old Colombian plastic surgeon, had known each other for a year and had arranged to meet in Koh Phangan on August 2, the day the alleged crime took place.