The judicial case surrounding the crime that Daniel Sancho allegedly committed on the island of Koh Phangan, in the south of Thailand, last August continues to cause a lot of talk in our country and around the world.
Surprisingly, the legal team defending the alleged perpetrator of the crime against Edwin Arrieta has decided to call a press conference to denounce a series of important “irregularities” that occurred in the Thai Police investigation.
Convinced that they can prove that the murder of Edwin Arrieta was accidental and not premeditated, the lawyers have begun the meeting with the media explaining that the authorities in the Asian country did not act correctly. “The Thai Police did not have legal or judicial correspondence to make a deportation order (…) It has been said that Daniel Sancho had confessed. He had confessed all the extremes of what the Police wanted him to confess, but that was not was what he confessed (…) Daniel did not buy anything to kill Mr. Arrieta, there was a fight,” commented Carmen Balfagón.
After evaluating the police action as ”a shame,” the defender of Rodolfo Sancho’s son explained that they have faith in the process: ”We have complete confidence in the Koh Samui court, in Thai Justice.”
At one point in the press conference, after explaining that the police promised Sancho deportation to Spain and that they forced him to sign documents in Thai, Balfagón showed a series of photographs in which you can see the accused (who already was detained) having dinner at a hamburger restaurant with the officers. These images had never seen the light of day, despite the fact that the scene was widely discussed at the beginning of the case.
”Maybe we’ll start to understand things like this. This photo that has never been seen in Spain. Daniel is eating, I think, a hamburger surrounded by 9 police officers in a totally friendly attitude. That is the trust they gave to Daniel, because they were going to deport him,” the lawyer explained. ”He was going to collaborate in the investigation and was going to say what he did with the victim’s remains in exchange for being returned to Spain,” she stated.
Both Marcos García-Montes and Carmen Balfagón have been positive about the process and have assured the media that Thailand is a country that respects human rights, so they hope that their theory about irregularities in the investigation will be heard and taken into account.
“We hope that justice will be done and that it will be a fair procedure, and we believe that it will be that way. Daniel will have a fair process in view of the evidence that exists,” the Spanish lawyers have ruled.
