There is less than a month left until the trial against Daniel Sancho is held in Thailand after being accused of the murder and dismemberment of the body of Edwin Arrieta on the Thai island of Koh Pha Ngan in early August 2023. The son of Rodolfo Sancho, who He has been in Koh Samui prison since last August, surprising everyone with his latest statements to the EFE Agency, in which he was ”sure” of his ”acquittal” because he had acted in “self-defense.” ”.
”I am convinced that they are going to acquit me because it will be proven that it was self-defense,” declared the Spanish chef before the aforementioned media after being asked about the possibility of being sentenced to capital punishment. In addition to being accused of premeditated murder, the 29-year-old faces the following charges: concealment of the body and destruction of other people’s documentation.
The controversial words of Rodolfo Sancho’s son have not gone unnoticed by the prosecution, who in a matter of hours have wanted to comment on the issue. According to Lecturas magazine, which he had been able to speak with Juan Gonzalo Ospina, lawyer for Edwin Arrieta’s family, the criminal lawyer considered Sancho’s words “unfortunate.”
”I would have opted for a line more linked to the mental state, asking for forgiveness and stating that he hopes to be able to come home soon, but every time he excuses himself he hurts the family,” the lawyer stated.
Regarding the work that his law firm is doing together with Colombian and Thai lawyers, Ospina confessed that it had been an arduous task because his role had been to “coordinate so that everything develops as normal” and ” “ensure the honorability of the victim and his family.”
Another difficulty they had to face was choosing Thai lawyers. ”We are doing it without any remuneration and with minimal transportation and material costs, with an express waiver of fees, because the objective is for justice to be done,” the lawyer declared to the aforementioned media.
Furthermore, the lawyer denied that the prosecution had requested the death penalty for Sancho, stating that “the facts could lead the judge to consider life sentence or capital punishment.” ”In that sense we respect that the second is exchanged for the first,” he asserted. Finally, the criminal lawyer assured that they were going to face the trial with the hope that justice will be done, but with some uncertainty about how it will develop.
