The investment analyst Silvia Bronchalomother of spanish Daniel Sanchosentenced to life in prison in Thailand for the premeditated murder of Colombian surgeon Edwin Arrieta, visited his son on Friday in Surat Thani prison, after the end of the quarantine period.
Bronchalo entered the visiting area of the prison around 10 a.m. (five a.m. in Spain), he was told. Efea lower module adjacent to the main prison building, where Sancho was transferred a week ago.
Sancho, 30, had to complete six days of quarantine upon entering the centreDuring the lockdown, during which he was unable to receive visitors or make video calls, and which ended on Thursday, he once tested negative for Covid-19, according to sources familiar with the matter.
This is a common protocol in Thailand since the Covid-19 pandemic that Sancho already had to follow when he was provisionally admitted to Samui prison on August 7, 2023, five days after the crime that occurred on the neighboring island of Phangan.
According to sources familiar with the matter, Sancho was transferred on Wednesday, after completing quarantine, to Module 6 of Surat Thani Prison, the only one classified as high security by the Surat Thani Central Prison website and intended for inmates serving long sentences, as a prison official told the aforementioned agency.
The Spaniard entered Surat Thani prison a week ago, on the mainland in the province of the same name and about a hundred kilometers from Samui, a day after being sentenced to life in prison.
The Samui Provincial Court ruling found that Sancho premeditatedly murdered Arrieta on August 2, 2023. on the island of Phangan, for which he had initially been sentenced to death, reduced to life imprisonment for the Spaniard’s “beneficial collaboration” in the process and the “defense work.”
The judge also noted Sanchothat You can still appeal the sentence twiceguilty of the two other crimes he was charged with: the dismemberment of Arrieta, then aged 44, and the theft of the victim’s passport.
Although Sancho asked the judge during the sentence reading to stay in Samui, that prison does not accept prisoners sentenced to more than 15 years in prison, while Surat Thani prison accepts prisoners sentenced to between 15 years and the death penalty.
Surat Thani prison is located in a sparsely populated area about 600 kilometers south of Bangkok and houses about ten times as many prisoners as Samui, 4,730 men and 626 women, according to the corrections department.
Son of Spanish actor Rodolfo Sancho and Silvia Bronchalo, Daniel Sancho initially confessed to the crime, but later and during the trial argued that Arrieta’s deathwith whom he was staying in Phangan on the day of the events,and because of an accident.
