The Samui court (southern Thailand), where the trial against the Spanish Daniel Sancho for the alleged premeditated murder of the Colombian Edwin Arrieta is taking place, celebrates this Thursday, April 11, the last session of the week with the testimony of police officers responsible for the investigation.
The above, because, from next April 12 to the 16th of the same month, the Songkran or Buddhist New Year in Thailand, Therefore, the process will not be resumed until next Wednesday, according to what the judge announced the day before.
This Thursday's session was again attended by the defendant's father, the Spanish actor Rodolfo Sancho, and his mother, the investment analyst Silvia Bronchalo, who entered the court without making statements.
They are two members of the Police who participated in the preparation of the police report (…) when the Police managed to focus on Daniel's suspicion
The lawyer for Arrieta's family in Spain, Juan Gonzalo Ospina, commented to the media waiting at the doors of the court before the judge's decision to hold the trial behind closed doors, that the witnesses of this April, called by the Prosecutor's Office, are “quite important”.
“There are two members of the Police who participated in the preparation of the police report (…) when the Police managed to focus on the suspicion of Daniel upon receiving information from the garbage dump operator that human remains had been found“said Ospina.
Ospina, who announced that his team returns to Spain this Thursday and delegates the development of the co-accusation to his Thai associates, refers to the first remains of Arrieta's body found in the Phangan garbage dump (island near Samui) on August 3, a day after the alleged crime, which triggered the police investigation.
After receiving the operator's notice, the Police reviewed the security cameras of the only supermarket on the island where the garbage bags in which the human remains appeared were sold, and They found Daniel Sancho buying them in images from August 1, as well as knives and other utensils.
Sancho went to the Phangan police station to report Arrieta's disappearance on the afternoon of August 3, hours after the police had discovered him in the images, without being aware of these first police investigations and after being contacted by the Colombian's family. , alarmed at not receiving news from the surgeon.
The Spanish lawyer considered that the police witnesses will address the “inconsistencies he offered when he went to report that Arrieta was missing (…) In Spain it could be considered a false report or false testimony,” he added.
It was in self defense. It happened due to an incident in which only two people were involved. We affirm that he had no intention (to kill Arrieta)
Sancho remained in police custody since he went to the police station to make the complaint and was formally detained on August 5., after confessing to the crime in front of Phangan agents; Although he later pleaded not guilty before the judge during the preliminary phase of the trial and has maintained since then that Arrieta's death was due to an accident during a fight.
“It was in self-defense. It happened due to an incident in which there were only two people involved. We affirm that he had no intention (to kill Arrieta),” said the Thai public defender who defends Sancho before entering the court. hall, Aprichat Srinual, this April 11,
The Prosecutor's Office accuses Sancho of premeditated murder and two other crimesconcealment of the body and destruction of documentation, with capital punishment as the maximum punishment.
EFE
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