“It’s not in Koh Samui, it’s in Surat Thani.” That was how forceful Big Joke, the number two of the Thai police and in charge of the investigation into the case of Daniel Sancho, appeared before the microphones of Código 10 and the insistence of its reporter Esther Yáñez, who did not believe the information.
In fact, the police chief detailed in a sketch how the agents daily transfer the Spanish defendant from the peninsula to the island in question to proceed with more police interrogations and family meetings. An arduous transfer that the journalist from Cuatro wanted to show live, in addition to the exteriors of the Surat Thani prison.
Código 10 spoke exclusively with Big Joke, the deputy director of the Thai police, about the case of Daniel Sancho, making an important revelation: “He is not in Koh Samui, but in Surat Thani prison.” In fact, such is the surprise of the program’s reporter, Esther Yáñez, at the police officer’s statement that she insisted several times what she was referring to, believing that she did not understand the language.
To make the information clear, Big Joke made a sketch where he drew the exact place where Daniel Sancho sleeps, his true whereabouts in Thailand. In addition, on said paper you can read the words “Midland” and “Island”. In other words, mainland and island in order to differentiate Koh Samui, the island where the Spaniard is transferred daily for interrogations and visits, from Surat Thani, the prison where he spends the nights.
“Silvia Bronchalo is going to Koh Samui because until Friday there [Daniel Sancho] is being questioned by the Ko Pha Ngan police and it would be the hours she takes to see him,” the reporter said. “She is transferred by ferry and between the two sites there is practically every hour or every two hours. The ferry ride would be an hour and a half and more or less between the port and the jail in Koh Samui we would be talking about 45 minutes”, she added.
In addition, Esther Yáñez followed the exact route that the authorities would be taking with Daniel Sancho following one of the police vans. A transfer that would last a total of five hours.
On the other hand, the program also discovered what the daily life of the prisoners in the Surat Thani jail is like. Daniel Sancho would spend the night there along with 2,500 inmates convicted of serious crimes such as arms or drug trafficking, so raids are the order of the day. Besides, these searches end up with the prisoners half-naked and with the cells turned upside down.
