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Daniel Sancho Bronchalo, a 30-year-old chef with a YouTube channel, was discovered responsible of the premeditated homicide of Edwin Arrieta Arteaga on the vacationer island of Koh Phangan final August.
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The case has generated huge curiosity in Spain as a result of the defendant’s father, Rodolfo Sancho, is a widely known actor, and scores of Spanish reporters flew in for the trial.
Sancho’s mom, Silvia Bronchalo, has additionally been in performing and each dad and mom had been on the sentencing, The Associated Press reported, including that each are 49.
Bussakorn Kaewleeled, a lawyer for the sufferer’s household, mentioned the relations had been proud of the result.
“The plaintiff is glad with the sentence as a result of he will likely be put in jail for all times and so they obtain some monetary compensation,” Bussakorn instructed reporters outdoors the court docket on the island of Koh Samui.
“The verdict has been delivered, each side have the suitable to attraction based on Thai legislation,” Bussakorn added.
When requested about Sancho’s response, she mentioned: “He is gloomy, however we will not overlook the lack of the dead one.”
The court docket at first sentenced Sancho to loss of life however commuted that to life imprisonment on account of his cooperation through the trial, the AP reported, citing Police Col. Paisan Sangthep, deputy commander of the Surat Thani Provincial Police, who attended the listening to.
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Lurid particulars of Arrieta’s loss of life
Sancho claimed he killed Arrieta, 44, in self-defense and admitted hiding the physique however denied destroying the Colombian’s passport.
The trial had testimony that Sancho chopped up Arrieta’s physique and put the components in plastic baggage earlier than distributing them round Koh Phangan.
Sancho led police to seven websites the place he allegedly disposed of the sufferer’s dismembered physique in plastic baggage, CBS News associate community BBC News reported.
While Thailand nonetheless has the loss of life penalty for some crimes, together with premeditated homicide, it not often carries out executions — the final being in 2018.
Arrieta’s household mentioned earlier than the decision that they favored a sentence of life imprisonment.
“Let him be left in Thailand so he can take time, on a regular basis that God offers him to stay, to consider what he did,” Darling Arrieta, the sufferer’s sister, mentioned in an HBO documentary concerning the case.
“He not solely dismembered my brother, he dismembered a household.”
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Disputed variations of occasions
Sancho and Arrieta agreed to satisfy in individual after attending to know one another on-line.
Sancho’s father mentioned in the identical HBO documentary that Arrieta had threatened his son, after which “there was a combat, and on this combat, there was an accident.”
The protection argued that Sancho acted in official self-defense after Arrieta tried to drive him to have intercourse.
“He tried to rape me, and we fought,” Sancho mentioned in an announcement quoted by the Spanish each day El Mundo.
Sancho testified that Arrieta fell as they fought and hit his head on a bath, misplaced consciousness and died, the AP reported.
Another lawyer for the sufferer’s household, Juan Gonzalo Ospina, mentioned in a latest interview with El Mundo that Sancho was residing a “false actuality.”
Ospina mentioned it was confirmed on the trial in April that Sancho had purchased knives, plastic baggage and cleansing provides earlier than the crime and stored them within the room the place the killing befell.
According to IMDB, Rodolfo Sancho has dozens of movie and TV credit to his identify and starred in “El Ministerio del Tiempo” (“The Ministry of Time”).
