Less three months before the hearing Where Daniel Sancho will be tried for murder and dismemberment Edwin ArrietaThe Spanish defense condemned in a press conference:Thai police fabricated their statements to accuse him: “The actions of the police are a scandal and a disgrace. Those who confessed that Daniel was the murderer were all wrong.”
This was confirmed by Sancho family spokesperson Carmen Balfagón. “all required documents” to show that the police had “fabricated” the young Spaniard’s statement.
The defense claims that actor Rodolfo Sancho’s son acted in self-defense after a fight between the two. The result of an attempted sexual assault. Therefore, in his version, under Thai law, there would have been no premeditation in the killing and then dismemberment of the Colombian surgeon, as a way of avoiding the life imprisonment or death penalty that the decision could have resulted in. The trial will primarily run from April 9 to May 3.
Sancho’s failure to plead guilty to premeditated murder is what delayed the trial until April 9, but also gave his lawyers time to establish new lines of defence. Among them, this one shows: irregularities In the investigation carried out by the police of the Asian country, it turned out that everything was an accident caused by a fight.
“All this turns the day upside down. 21 AugustWhen the police who leaked and permanently exposed secrets leaked that there was a fight between Sancho and Arrieta. “Then the preparation is over.” recently announced Sancho’s lawyer, Marcos García-Montes. “A fight excludes premeditation, so we would already be involved in a murder. A murder in which the police themselves leaked different videos saying that there was a fight, that we have footage that we will provide, that this man in the struggle fell into the bathtub and broke his occipital bone, which was almost the cause of death.”
It was in late August Thailand Prosecutor’s Office A report was made that Daniel Sancho was accused of premeditated murder and hiding the body. Along with Edwin Arrieta’s autopsy, the two crimes the police charged him with after the investigation will be key to the case.