Everything is being prepared on the Thai island of Koh Samui, whose court will, in just a few hours, be the scene that literally everyone will be watching. Spanish chef Daniel Sancho (30 years old) will know at 10 a.m. local time -5 a.m. Spanish time- this Thursday, August 29, the decision of the judges after being accused of the murder and dismemberment of the Colombian surgeon Edwin Arrieta.
What we won’t know for a few hours is whether Daniel will complete his most personal project behind bars or in freedom. As published this Wednesday, August 28 The Spanish newspaper, the son of actor Rodolfo Sancho (49 years old) is preparing a book in which he will tell his story, his truth.
The young chef wrote about 80 pages of this book, which will be a kind of true crime in which will reveal unknown details about his relationship with Edwin Arrieta and what really happened, always according to his version, in the bungalow where the Colombian surgeon lost his life and where Dani, as his relatives call him, would have dismembered him. It is not excluded that this book becomes, at the same time, in a television series that includes his testimony on the experience of going through a Thai prison.
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Daniel and his defense speak
Daniel Sancho a few days after his arrest.
EFE
The Defense Team Daniel Sancho He assured last Tuesday that he trusts the Thai justice system in view of the reading of the sentence pronounced against the grandson of the beloved and remembered actor Sancho Gracia, as the alleged author of this macabre crime that has been the news in all the media for exactly one year of the world.
“We trust the Thai justice system and hope that the sentence reflects what was seen during the trial.“, they said to EFE Spanish criminologists Ramón Chipirrás and Carmen Balfagón from the island of Samui, where they await the announcement of the verdict.
The lawyers of Balfagón-Chipirrás Legal Criminological Office They travelled to Thailand with Spanish lawyer Marcos García-Montes to accompany the father of the accused, actor Rodolfo Sancho, who will attend the reading of the judgment at the Samui Provincial Court on Thursday.
In the statements also for EFE, Daniel Sancho A few days ago, he assured that he was “prepared for the best and the worst” before the trial that will determine on August 29 whether or not he is guilty of the premeditated murder of Arrieta.
Rodolfo Sancho, very serious and not very talkative, goes to Thailand five days after learning of his son’s sentence.
“I am prepared for the best and the worst“, he said in an interview in Samui prison, where he has been held for 12 months, when asked how he would face the judgment. In his words, Sancho was optimistic and convinced that the judge would rule out that Arrieta’s death was due to premeditated murder..
The Spaniard considers that during the trial “It was clear that it was an accident.“, in reference to Arrieta’s death on August 2, 2023 on another Thai island, Phangan, and cites forensic evidence presented by the defense which, according to him, would prove that the death was due to a fight.
