Thai Police continue to charge premeditated murder According to information provided by police sources to EFE today, a lawsuit was filed against Spaniard Daniel Sancho in the final report of the investigation into the death of Colombian Edwin Arrieta, which was delivered to the Prosecutor’s Office this Monday.
Phangan Island (Southern Thailand) Police arrested Sancho after a two-month investigation. premeditated murder and hiding the bodyThese are the same charges leveled against the Spaniard, who was brought to justice on August 7 and placed in temporary prison.
Samui Prosecutor’s Office confirmed to EFE this Monday that it received the report from the police station in neighboring Phangan, where the alleged crime was committed on August 2.
Prosecutors must now prepare their own report and submit it to the Samui court before October 29; At this point the judge can set a date for the hearing.
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Sancho, 29, who was temporarily detained in Samui prison, was arrested in Phangan on August 5. Confess that the Colombian surgeon was killed and dismembered that dayIts remains are scattered across the island and the sea.
Thailand’s Penal Code provides for the death penalty for crimes such as premeditated murder, but this is often commuted to life imprisonment.
On the other hand, as the judge himself reminded Sancho when he was brought to justice on August 7, the defendant’s confession and cooperation could help significantly reduce the sentence. The young Spaniard confessed while in custody at Phaghan police station and co-operated with the Police in reconstructing the alleged crime and finding evidence. The penalty for hiding or destroying a body or part of a body, for which the police also accused Sancho, will not be more than one year in prison.
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As for the cause of death of the 44-year-old Colombian surgeon, the police claim in its report that it was a cut on the neck, the same police sources told EFE today. The autopsy has not been released at this time. These sources added that eight of the seventeen pieces from which Arrieta’s body was dismembered were found.
The young man has been without a lawyer in Thailand since September 7, after the defendant’s father, Spanish actor Rodolfo Sancho, abandoned the services of Thai lawyer Anan Chuayprabat (Kunh Anan) due to “inconsistencies in the defence”.
Sancho, who has been appearing before the judge regularly electronically since his entry into prison, is required to hire a Thai lawyer after the hearing begins, and if he does not have a lawyer, the judge will appoint a lawyer ex officio.
Source: Informacion
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