The Spaniard Daniel Sancho, who faces a trial in Thailand for the alleged murder of the Colombian Edwin Arrieta, will finally declare this Thursdayas planned, after the prosecution's turn had concluded.
(Also read: The testimony that would turn the trial against Daniel Sancho for the murder of Edwin Arrieta).
For the first session of defense witnesses, the accused's father, actor Rodolfo Sancho, and two immigration police officers from Phanghan, the island where the alleged crime took place on August 2, have also been summoned.
However, it seems highly unlikely that there will be enough time on Thursday for the four witnesses to testify and it is not ruled out that tomorrow's session will be dedicated exclusively to the testimony of Daniel Sancho.
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The only one to testify this Wednesday in the morning session was the Spanish lawyer Juan Gonzalo Ospina, on behalf of the Arrieta family and as a witness for the co-accusation, who acts alongside the Prosecutor's Office.
Daniel Sancho's lawyer, Apirchat Srinual, stated this Wednesday that the accused is “always willing to testify.”
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Sancho, 29, was arrested on August 5 after confessing to the murder and dismemberment of the Colombian surgeon, whose remains were scattered over Phangan (near Samui) and the sea, although he later declared himself innocent and claimed that his death occurred during a fight in self-defense.
During the first hearing of the oral trial on April 9, Sancho heard again the charges that the Prosecutor's Office presented against him, and accepted both the charge of hiding the body, for the dismemberment of Arrieta, and for the first time the charge of destroying documentation. unrelated, due to the disappearance of the Colombian's passport, which he had previously denied.
The Spaniard then again pleaded not guilty to the only extremely serious charge, that of premeditated murder, among the twenty crimes for which the Thai Penal Code contemplates the death penalty, although it is not usually applied and is usually commuted to life imprisonment.
EFE
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