He was in Koh Samui prison in Thailand on August 16. And this Daniel Sancho’s last statementEdwin Arrieta was imprisoned there for his crime. In this statement, included in the summary accessed by Prensa Ibérica’s investigative and events channel CASO ABIERTO, Sancho qualifies and corrects his version of the man with whom he had sexual intercourse.
The Declaration appears as an “appendix” to the Convention. Interrogation report in case 118/66 and as “additional interrogation of the accused Daniel Jerónimo Sancho Broncalo (sic)” by “Lieutenant Colonel Chakrit Intarak and Police Major Seksak Srisamo” from the case investigation team. Sancho states: acted alone and that this version contradicts his previous statements to the Thai police on 6 and 7 August. must prevail like yours.
with lawyer
In his statement With the help of a Thai lawyer Sancho, with the help of a British translator, insists there was a fight between the pair and denies planning the crime by purchasing the knife and saw. “I bought these items to make a video clip on my youtube channel “Pure Joy”… After the incident, I used them to dismember the bodybut that was not my original intention to purchase it,” he writes in his signed statement.
In this sense, Sancho’s defense Carmen Balfagón, Ramón Chipirrás and Marcos García-MontesHe even states that he asked permission from the hotel manager to record cooking videos in Sancho’s room, and that the woman will be called to testify during the trial to confirm this information.
“He bit my arms”
In this confession from prison, Sancho admits: After dismembering Edwin Arrieta’s body, but he insists on a previous fight between the two and denies premeditating the crime. While questioning him, investigators show him three pictures of his body with some injuries. Sancho explains that “the 1st and 3rd images were caused by a fight between the two.” He assures that this was because “the deceased bit me on the arms before he died.”
After explaining about the fight that he was right-handed, investigators ask him:
-Which hand did you hit Mr. Mr. during the incident? How many times did he hit her and Edwin’s face?
Sancho’s response is as follows:
-I used my left hand to hit Mr. Two or three times in Edwin’s face.
At another point in the interrogation, Sancho insists that he did not use the knife to kill Arrieta:
-Did you use a knife to stab Mr. Edwin during the incident? Like?
-By the way, Mr. Edwin was alive, I did not use a knife to stab him. The knife wasn’t sharp enough when I dismembered the body, so I got angry.
No cause of death
Even Daniel Sancho confirms that he came to this situation because of this anger. stab in the face to the now deceased Edwin Arrieta. However, two autopsies performed on the victim’s remains revealed no traces of stab wounds, did not allow determining the cause of death, and revealed a fracture in the occipital bone at the back of the skull.
In his final statement, Sancho admits that he always dismembered Arrieta’s body. It is written as follows in the interrogation report:
To ask: How did you cut the body?
-Reply: Using the saw, I began to cut his left wrist. Then I put it in the garbage bag. Then I cut off the arm and neck. I used the knife to cut the meat and the saw to cut the hard bones.
Daniel Sancho admits to dismembering Arrieta’s body: “I started using the saw to cut his left wrist… I used the knife to cut the flesh and I used the saw to cut the hard bones.”
Regarding the dismemberment of Arrieta’s body, Sancho confirmed the statements he made to police on August 6 and 7. He remembers that he later wrote 17 songs in which he dismembered Arrieta’s body and signed them himself. She even made drawings with those pieces. From prison he explains Can’t remember how many pieces there are He dismembered the body. “Probably between 17 and 20 pieces(later put) in about eight or nine bags (from garbage), but I don’t remember which organs each bag contains“, states.
“I was scared and confused”
The inquisitors ask him why he doesn’t remember, and Sancho answers:
“I couldn’t control myself. I was scared and confused. I was full of emotions and I couldn’t control myself“.
He then left several bags containing Edwin Arrieta’s remains in garbage containers and I rented a canoe To get rid of others. In his statement from prison, he said:
“I paddled a canoe about four or five times to throw the body parts overboard, totaling about six bags. I don’t remember how many body parts there are. “I don’t know what organ they are.”.
The researchers then ask him: Where and how did you throw the deceased’s phone, passport and documents? Sancho’s response is as follows:
“I threw your phone in your Louis Vuitton bag To the sea at Rin Beach. “I put his passport and other documents in a plastic bag next to the body, but I don’t know whether I threw it in the sea or in the trash.”
This is the last statement given by Daniel Sancho. Sources close to the detained Spaniard confirmed that police visited the prison once again last October to provide new information about the fate of Edwin Arrieta’s passport, but this time refused to testify. Sancho will go on trial in Thailand next April. he is accused premeditated murderdismemberment and concealment of the body and the theft of the victim’s documents.