The terrible murder of Edwin Arrieta in Thailand has become the most mediated crime of the summer and media from all over the world are covering the event. The alleged murderer, Daniel Sancho, son of well-known Spanish actor Rodolfo Sancho, is in prison awaiting trial. It should be noted that, hours after the authorities found the body, the accused young man confessed to being the perpetrator of the crime.
However, Sancho wanted to make it clear that it was an accident and that Arrieta was harassing him: ”I am guilty, but I was Edwin’s hostage. It was a glass cage, but it was a cage. He made me destroy the relationship with my girlfriend, he has forced me to do things that he would never have done.
According to the deputy director of the Thai Police, Surachate Hakparn, last Tuesday at a press conference, the investigation into the crime has ended and they have found consistent evidence to accuse Sancho of premeditated murder, which carries the death penalty in the asian country Despite these statements, nothing is official until the prosecutor carefully studies the case and establishes the penalty request.
Although the investigation has lasted several weeks and the authorities have discovered some key information about the crime, such as that it had a single perpetrator, that Edwin did not die from a blow to the sink, etc., the Telecinco Fiesta program has ensured that there is a problem with one of the pieces of evidence provided by the Thai police.
It is the purchase ticket that Sancho would have made the day before the events in one of the supermarkets on the Asian island. Thanks to the cameras, we can witness that the young man was there and that he acquired different gadgets to commit the crime: a pair of knives and a saw.
Although no one disputes its presence in the bazaar or its acquisition, the problem comes with the times. The purchase receipt says that the alleged murderer went through the checkout at 4:04 p.m., something that is striking if we take into account that he entered the establishment at 4:03 p.m.
In addition, the security recording shows that when he paid for the tools it was 4:14 p.m., so we would be dealing with a “false document” or “some kind of error,” as explained in the Mediaset España space.
“Did it only take a minute to buy?”, was raised in the program dedicated to the social chronicle. In addition, they also pointed out that it is very rare for a piece of paper that has been in a bag with parts of the victim’s body to be “intact.”
Although no one doubts Sancho’s guilt, this proof would be especially important, since the purchase of said tools is one of the main reasons for the prosecution to allege that there was premeditation, which in Thailand translates as a death penalty.
”Now what comes next is for the Thai defense, with the Thai rules of the game, to prepare an adequate defense. You have to find the motivation. I imagine the defense will do that, I don’t know,” Carmen Balfagón, spokesperson for the Sancho family, explained on television.
