This Tuesday begins the third week of the trial against Daniel Sancho, which will decide whether or not he is finally convicted of the crime of Edwin Arrieta in Thailand, and under what conditions. The defendant’s defense is focusing his strategy on the end result being unpremeditated murder, at most. Something that Arrieta’s family and the Prosecutor’s Office try to avoid in order to get a life sentence for the chef.
And, despite the fact that these are sessions with great media expectation, the judge is doing everything possible to ensure that no information comes out from inside the room. So much so, that he has been toughening his measures little by little, going so far as to threaten anyone who leaks any information about what happens during the trial with jail time. A measure that is not achieving its goal. And every day new data comes out that generate numerous headlines.
The program Let’s see, which has been reporting on the case since day one, has obtained one of the first reports made by the police in which it specifies the human remains found. And this is what has generated the judge’s anger. “Salad Beach area, Koh Phangan District. The following human remains were found: a left hand, the head and the chest… packed in a black plastic bag,” he says.
A document that has attracted attention considering that throughout the investigation and in the trial itself it has been ensured that Edwin Arrieta’s torso has not been found. For this reason, the magistrate has called the person who wrote this report to testify. Still, it has not shed light on this matter.
“The judge, visibly upset, asks the police officer in charge of writing that file: ‘But let’s see, was the thorax found or not?’. And the police officer is not able to deny it: ‘I was simply transcribing what “My boss was telling me,” they said in the aforementioned program.
Following this agent’s statement, it will be this Tuesday when that chief will speak before the judge in the Koh Samui court. And this is an issue that brings to the table possible flaws in the investigation. Days after making this report, Big Joke, number two in the Thai police at the time, stated in a press conference a possible stabbing.
“He shows a T-shirt in which a hole made with a knife appears. A stab wound that could not be proven,” recalls the reporter. A fact about which not much more was known and that has resurfaced with the existence of this document. But if one thing is clear, it is that “officially the investigation advanced without finding the torso.”
Added to this is that they will no longer be able to perform any second expert test, since there are no body parts. “All the remains found by the Thai police of Edwin Arrieta were returned to the family a few weeks ago and are cremated,” the journalist revealed. “That summary is a complete disaster, from my point of view. In Spain it is totally challengeable,” he added.
