Thailand: Police seek final evidence against Spaniard Daniel Sancho
August 13, 2023
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Extended police investigation into Spaniards Daniel Sanchoin temporary prison since Monday murder of Colombian Edwin Arrieta in ThailandIt’s about a week before the police can finish gathering key
Extended police investigation into Spaniards Daniel Sanchoin temporary prison since Monday murder of Colombian Edwin Arrieta in ThailandIt’s about a week before the police can finish gathering key evidence, and during which high-ranking officials from Bangkok must travel to Koh Phangan to follow up on the case.
Officers who have up to 84 days to complete an investigation from the time they are admitted to a prison on Koh Samui, they try to get “every possible proof” although they claim that the investigations have progressed very far, thanks in part to Sancho’s cooperation.
Spanish confessed on August 5 to a crime committed on the island of Koh Phangan (southern Thailand), where he was detained, and actively cooperated in the reconstruction of events, which could speed up the process and hasten the date of the start of the trial.
Sancho and Arrieta, who met last year through instagram, they met at Koh Phangan on August 2the day the surgeon was allegedly killed and dismembered, whose remains were found in various places, including at sea.
This was announced by the Deputy Chief of the Thai Police Surachate Hakparn. going to Koh Phangan this week to follow the latest developments in the case, they reported EFE police sources.
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Surachate, known as the Big Joke, is Media and controversial senior police officerand his involvement in the case demonstrates the high status that Thailand has given to this murder.
Meanwhile on Koh Phangan, the police will continue this week look for some of the fifteen pieces into which Arrieta’s body was dismemberedAccording to Sancho, during police interrogations, he admitted that he had not yet been found, as well as the Colombian’s mobile phone.
In addition, the arrival is expected, in principle, within the next week various requested forensic examinations and which are carried out in laboratories in Bangkok, about 450 km north of Koh Phangan.
They must also check and analyze security camera recordings to complete the movements of Sancho, a key to the investigation.
Sancho arrived on the island on 1 August. meet with Arrieta upon his arrival on August 2, according to the police report.
The day before, the Spaniard bought in a supermarket in the area knife and other utensils.
The first lifeless remains of a Colombian appeared on August 3 at the training ground from an incinerator on the island. That same night, Sancho went to the Koh Phangan police station to report the disappearance of his friend.
On Friday, the officers placed Sancho in police custody, and on Saturday they had already ordered his arrest during The 29-year-old man confessed to the crime.
Sancho may faces the maximum penalty of death, the only one to be treated as premeditated murder, although in an Asian country, prisoners are usually not executed and the sentence is usually commuted to life imprisonment.
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Quarantine and visiting family
Sancho, who ended up in temporary prison last Monday, The 10-day lockdown will end this week. as Covid-19 protocol for new inmates and you will be able to have your first meeting with your family.
This period will expire approximately on Thursday, and from that time, if the prison administration deems it appropriate, You will be able to receive visits from your relatives.
Sancho family son of Spanish actor Rodolfo Sancho and the grandson of fellow actor Félix Ángel Sancho Gracia, known by his two surnames, pleaded in a statement “that the media refrain from making hasty judgments.”
“We appreciate the interest of the press, but we cannot make statements at this time so as not to interfere with the investigation and to respect the very painful moment that both families are going through in this terrible situation that we had to endure, ”the brief statement read before EFE Fernando Oka, director of the law firm representing Sancho.
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