Daniel Sancho (30 years old), sentenced to life imprisonment in Thailand for the premeditated murder of the Colombian surgeon Edwin Arrietaspent his first night in Surat Thani prison and is serving a quarantine period due to covid-19.
Sancho is already in prison, where he arrived in an armored van on Friday afternoon, August 30, as confirmed this Saturday, August 31, to EFE. three employees of Surat Thani Central Prison (Southern Thailand), located in a quiet area surrounded by coconut trees in the province of the same name.
As one of the employees said, Sancho ends quarantine period “between 6 and 10 days” for covid-19 in prison, a common routine still in force in Thailand during which normally only visits from lawyers are allowed, but not from family members.
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He Correctional Department of Thailand and the Surat Thani prison headquarters could not confirm this because they are closed during the weekend, as verified by EFE.
Sancho had already had to spend a ten-day quarantine period when he entered Samui prisonabout 100 kilometers from Surat Thani, under provisional regime on August 7, 2023, five days after the crime, which occurred on the neighboring island of Phangan.
A Samui provincial court judge found Sancho guilty of Arrieta’s premeditated murder last Thursday, August 29, and sentenced him to life in prison, which can still be appealed in two Thai courts, including the Supreme Court.
Communication problems
Exterior of Surat Thani Thai Prison.
EFE
a security guard of the prison, located at the foot of a green hill in a peaceful environment, warned of possible communication problems in the foreigners’ prison because of the predominance of Thai among the center’s officials.
As explained, Sanchowho entered an armored van, He is said to have asked upon his arrival on Friday afternoon if “anyone spoke English”. and asked for an interpreter.
Once the quarantine is over, the prison employee told EFE that “it will be decided in which area it will be installed, because there are few foreigners, the majority are Burmese and Cambodians.” Contacted by EFESince The prison declined on Friday to specify in which area Sancho would be housed. and they indicated that there were other foreign prisoners, also European.
The transfer of Sancho at the prison of Surat Thani It was Friday, information confirmed in particular on the prisoner himself during a visit to Samui prison before his mobilization, in which he said that the change of center was “imminent”.
The Spanish chef had to make a journey that included a boat trip of about two and a half hours and two road trips, from the penitentiary on the island of Samui to the port and from there to the prison in Surat Thani, on the mainland.
Daniel Sancho arrives in court from Samui prison on Thursday.
Yes ok Sancho Gracia’s grandson asked the judge on Thursday after hearing the decision to stay in SamuiConsidered a “friendly” center in Thailand and with fewer inmates, this prison only admits those sentenced to less than 15 years in prison.
For his part, Surat Thani Prison houses prisoners sentenced to terms ranging from 15 years to the death penalty.has a high security module and two common areas for inmates, as well as a hospital area, among others.
Surat Thani Prison Suffering, Rights Groups Report humans, of “massification”and is about ten times more populated than Samui, with 4,730 male and 626 female prisoners, according to figures from the Department of Correctional Services.
In a sparsely populated area, with little traffic, few houses nearby and surrounded by fields of crops, Prison has new facilitiesinaugurated in February 2023, approximately 15 kilometers east of the city of Surat Thani (over 600 kilometers south of Bangkok).
Son of actor Rodolfo Sancho and investment analyst Silvia Bronchalo, Daniel Sancho initially confessed to the crime, but later and during the trial he maintained that Arrieta’s deatha Colombian plastic surgeon he met on the Thai island of Phangan on the day of the incident, it was because of an accident.
