He trial against the Spanish Daniel Sancho for the murder of the Colombian surgeon Edwin Arrieta It will resume this Wednesday with the focus on forensic evidence and about twenty witnesses from the Prosecutor's Office, mostly police officers.
After a recess since last Thursday due to the celebration of Songkran or Buddhist New Year, which eliminated the routine sessions on Friday and this Tuesday, the provincial court of the island of Samui (southern Thailand) resumes the trial against the Spaniard of 29 years old, which started on April 9.
The hearings will be held again behind closed doors and with the judge prohibiting details of what happens from being given. in the small courtroom, which accommodates about twenty people, including representatives of the defense and the prosecution, in addition to that day's witnesses.
Court in which the Trial against Sancho takes place.
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Among the few attendees, both the father of the accused, the actor Rodolfo Sancho, and his mother, the investment analyst Silvia Bronchalo, are expected to attend again this week, as well as two representatives of the Spanish Embassy, who participate as observers, since The Spaniard faces a possible death penalty.
The judge, whose identity is confidential, is the same magistrate responsible for the preliminary phase since Sancho was brought to justice on August 7, five days after the alleged crime on the nearby island of Phangan.
Sancho initially confessed to the premeditated murder and dismemberment of Arrieta at the police station on this tourist island.although he later pleaded not guilty before the judge.
Double the number of witnesses in the new hearing
Due to the cancellation of Friday's hearing since the last one did not include the afternoon session, The number of witnesses that the Prosecutor's Office would call doubles this week than the previous one, although it is unknown if there will be changes to the court calendar.
The expected witnesses are mostly forensic police, as well as a couple of doctors from the Phangan hospital, in a week in which the forensic evidence of the police investigation that determined that Sancho premeditatedly murdered Arrieta will be presented.
The 29-year-old Spaniard confessed to the crime against Edwin Arieta.
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Among the forensic evidence of the Police are at least eight parts found of the body of the Colombian surgeon, of the total of seventeen in which the body was dismembered and thrown in various places on the island, including the sea, according to the report. police.
The fact that no body parts such as the thorax were found prevented the autopsy carried out by the forensic police from offering a conclusive cause of Arrieta's death, which Sancho maintains that it was due to a fight and that he acted in self-defense after the surgeon tried to rape him.
The police report also includes fingerprints found at the scene of the alleged crime, a room at the Bougain Villa hotel in Phangan booked by the Spaniard, as well as sheets and pillowcases, a white shirt and T-shirt, a garbage bag, gloves rubber and hair.
Likewise, he presents a knife and white gauze in a black backpack at the Anantara hotel, where Sancho went to have breakfast on August 3; On Salad Beach, next to the scene of the alleged crime, agents found Arrieta's head and hands on August 6.
Daniel Sancho confessed to murdering the doctor Edwin Arrieta.
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The Prosecutor's Office's turn continues
The Prosecutor's Office called ten witnesses the previous week in three consecutive sessions, from the woman who found Arrieta's first mortal remains in a Phangan landfill to the person who sold Sancho the knives and saw that the prosecution considers he used to kill and dismember the surgeon.
The first week concluded with the statement of two of the 20 police officers who participated in the investigation since August 3, when the first remains of the Colombian's body were found and Sancho went to the police station to report his disappearance, being immediately identified as a suspect. .
The police had found images of Sancho on the surveillance cameras of the only supermarket on the island that sells the garbage bags where the first human remains were found.
Sancho, who can ask questions of witnesses during the trial, is expected to testify on April 25, the same day that his father will testify and the first of the defense's shift, according to the court calendar, which could be altered.
EFE
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