The trial against Daniel Sancho resumed this Wednesday after being postponed for several days due to the celebration of the Buddhist New Year. Rodolfo Sancho’s son thus faces a long week in which new witnesses are being brought forward to see if he committed the alleged murder with or without premeditation. A decision that will change the course of his future.
With this, there is less and less left to know the judge’s final decision on the crime of Colombian surgeon Edwin Arrieta. “Today the witnesses have been quite favorable for Daniel Sancho,” a reporter from Let’s See, displaced in Thailand, began to relate before revealing the statement of a witness that could give a 180-degree turn to the case.
The Prosecutor’s Office and the defense of the Arrieta family are doing everything possible to have Daniel Sancho convicted of having committed the murder with premeditation, something that Sancho’s team wants to avoid at all costs. And the actor’s son has always defended that the surgeon’s death occurred after a fight, something for which there was no apparent evidence, until now.
During this fourth day of the trial, a forensic doctor from the Koh Phangan hospital, independent of the police, testified about what they saw in the first analysis of the victim’s body. “When Edwin Arrieta’s remains arrive at the hospital, these doctors x-ray the Colombian doctor’s skull,” the reporter stated.
“What he has stated is that those wounds in the occipital part of Edwin Arrieta’s skull could be perfectly compatible with a fight,” he added, revealing this new piece of information unknown until now. “Let us remember that witnesses are obliged to tell the truth. And it is just as Daniel Sancho himself described in those confessions to the police,” he continued.
According to police reports made during the investigation, it was believed that “Daniel had picked up Edwin’s head and slammed it against the sink several times.” With this, the accused’s version could gain greater credibility.
It is not surprising that Rodolfo Sancho came out of this session with a happier face than he had had in recent days. Added to this is that Daniel Sancho has been “calmer” than in the first days. “Today he also asked the police again (…) With direct questions, with quite coherent questions. A person who shows that the summary has been studied very well,” said the program’s reporter.
An attitude that contrasts with that of the previous days, taking into account that the judge had to call him to attention for several “inappropriate questions.” “Daniel has the right to ask if the police really remember what he wrote in the report,” his lawyer said at the end of the session.
