Almost two months after Daniel Sancho confessed to Thai authorities that he had murdered and dismembered Colombian surgeon Edwin Arrieta, the alleged criminal remains a prisoner in Koh Samui prison awaiting trial.
Although there is still no set date, it is expected that the legal appointment could arrive next January 2024. According to the legislation of the Asian country, the Spaniard could be sentenced to life imprisonment or, if things get complicated and to the worst case scenario, the death penalty.
This morning, the Spanish Television program Mañaneros, which Jaime Cantizano presents every day, has exclusively given new information about the case that could change the trial of the accused. After weeks studying the facts, the investigators have written the final and definitive report that they will present to the Prosecutor and the Judge of the case.
Public broadcaster journalists have had access to said document. As explained by Gema Peñalosa, there are some notable headlines: “The first of the headlines is that, as we already knew, the crime occurred due to a fight because Edwin, according to Daniel’s version, wants to force him to have sexual relations. What is happening? Daniel punches him, Edwin bites him, Daniel pushes him and the surgeon, according to the report, falls and hits his head on the sink.”
The journalist also wanted to highlight that in the investigators’ document there is no trace of a stab wound to the chest, an action that Daniel Sancho would have supposedly carried out to end Arrieta’s life. This calls into question the veracity of the statements of the Thai police, since the authorities assured in a press conference that said stabbing occurred.
One of the most relevant points of the report is that it includes what the young man’s main motivation would have been to carry out the tremendous crime: a sexual video. “Daniel, in his statement, says that he was afraid of Edwin, that he coerced him. And this is the news, he did it with a sexual video of Daniel, and he also threatened to harm very close members of his family, to who Daniel loves very much and wanted to protect them,” said Peñalosa.
From the public broadcaster’s magazine they wanted to make it clear that the authorities of the Asian country have provided a lot of information throughout these weeks, but that what is really relevant is what is included in the report that they will deliver to the Prosecutor and the Judge.
”This is the report that is going to be presented and not what the police said in the press conference, that they did not have the evidence tied up,” explained Gema Peñalosa, trying to clarify the doubts of her colleagues and the audience.
