The Thai courts sentenced him on Thursday Daniel Sanchoto life in prison for the murder of Colombian surgeon Edwin Arrieta a year ago in the country. Likewise, the young Spaniard was ordered to pay compensation of 107,000 euros to Arrieta’s family, a figure far from being the same. more than 700,000 that the victim’s lawyers requested.
Beatriz de Vidente confessed that it seemed to her that the sentence was ““completely predictable” based on the evidence that was developed in the following days during the trial. “The evidence against him was extensive and very significant,” he said.
So he admitted that he was partly surprised that Daniel Sancho’s family had any hope of “a more lenient sentence” with the data processed and how incisive the prosecutor and his assistant were.
“The evidence was indisputable,” he stressed. In addition, he indicated that this sentence is “satisfactory” for the family of Edwin Arrieta because it “demonstrates premeditated murder”; and also for Daniel Sancho, because the worst scenario, which was the death penalty, was “avoided.”
The lawyer admitted that it seemed to him reckless homicide “unthinkable” and absolution “impossible”.
