A week after being sentenced to life in prison in Thailand for the premeditated murder of Colombian surgeon Edwin Arrieta, Daniel Sancho (30 years old), He was transferred to the high security module of Surat Thani prisonThe change occurred this Thursday, September 5. after passing the quarantine period.
Daniel Sancho was isolated since last Friday, August 30, the date of his entry into this penitentiary, until this Thursday. During this period He was unable to receive visitors or make video calls.
The actor’s son Rodolfo Sancho (49 years old) had to take a covid-19 test, which came back negative. Thus, from tomorrow, he will be able to make video calls, but in a more restrictive way than in Samui prison, where he remained in provisional regime between August 7, 2023, five days after the crime, and last Friday 31.
According to sources close to the case, as indicated EFEDaniel Sancho was transferred on Thursday, after completing quarantine, to Module 6 of Surat Thani Prison, the only one classified as high security, according to the prison’s website.
Let us recall that Daniel Sancho had already had to undergo a similar quarantine when he entered the prison on the island of Samui more than a year ago. a common practice in Thai prisons since the pandemic of covid-19.
The prisoner was transferred last Friday to Surat Thani Central Prison (southern Thailand), on the mainland in the province of the same name and about 100 kilometers from Samui, a day after being sentenced to life sentence by a court on this island.
The sentence states that Sancho murdered Edwin Arrieta with premeditation on August 2, 2023 on the Thai island of Phangan, near Samui. According to the judge, the sentence was reduced from death to life imprisonment because of the defendant’s “collaboration” with the investigation.
The judge also found Sancho guilty of the two other crimes he was accused of: cantonment d’Arrieta and theft of other people’s documentsby the victim’s passport.
From the Samui provincial court, they told EFE that The decision will not be communicated to the parties until 10 days after it has been read.The public defender who defended Sancho in Thailand, Apichart Srinual, told the same media outlets that he had not yet received a copy of the sentence, which can be appealed in two Thai courts, including the Supreme Court.
Although Sancho asked the judge during the sentence reading to stay in Samui, this prison, considered friendly in Thailand, does not accept prisoners sentenced to more than 15 years in prison, while Surat Thani prison accepts prisoners sentenced to between 15 years in prison and the death penalty.
The prison of Surat Thani is located in a depopulated area about 600 kilometres south of Bangkok and houses about 10 times as many prisoners as Samui. 4,730 inmates and 626 women, according to figures from the Prisons Department.
Son of Spanish actor Rodolfo Sancho and investment analyst Silvia Bronchalo (49 years old), Daniel Sancho initially confessed to the crime, but later and during the trial, he maintained that the death of Edwin Arrieta, a Colombian plastic surgeon he had met in Phangan on the day of the events, was due to an accident.
