A Thai courtroom jailed a well-known Spanish actor’s son for all times on Thursday for the grisly homicide of a Colombian plastic surgeon on a tropical vacation island in a case that has gripped Spain.
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.
The case has generated huge curiosity in Spain as a result of the defendant’s father, Rodolfo Sancho, is a well known actor, and scores of Spanish reporters flew in for the trial.Â
Sancho’s mom, Silvia Bronchalo, has additionally been in appearing and each mother and father have been on the sentencing, The Related Press reported, including that each are 49.
Bussakorn Kaewleeled, a lawyer for the sufferer’s household, stated the relations have been pleased with the result.
“The plaintiff is glad with the sentence as a result of he might be put in jail for all times they usually obtain some monetary compensation,” Bussakorn advised reporters outdoors the courtroom on the island of Koh Samui.
“The decision has been delivered, each side have the suitable to attraction in response to Thai legislation,” Bussakorn added.
When requested about Sancho’s response, she stated: “He’s unhappy, however we will not neglect the lack of the useless one.”
The courtroom at first sentenced Sancho to dying however commuted that to life imprisonment as a result 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.
Lurid particulars of Arrieta’s dying
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 elements in plastic luggage 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 luggage, CBS Information accomplice community BBC Information reported.Â
Whereas Thailand nonetheless has the dying penalty for some crimes, together with premeditated homicide, it not often carries out executions — the final being in 2018.
Arrieta’s household stated 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 provides him to stay, to consider what he did,” Darling Arrieta, the sufferer’s sister, stated in an HBO documentary concerning the case.
“He not solely dismembered my brother, he dismembered a household.”
Disputed variations of occasions Â
Sancho and Arrieta agreed to satisfy in particular person after attending to know one another on-line.
Sancho’s father stated 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 professional self-defense after Arrieta tried to power him to have intercourse.
“He tried to rape me, and we fought,” Sancho stated in a press release quoted by the Spanish every day El Mundo.
Sancho testified that Arrieta fell as they fought and hit his head on a tub, misplaced consciousness and died, the AP reported.
One other lawyer for the sufferer’s household, Juan Gonzalo Ospina, stated in a current interview with El Mundo that Sancho was residing a “false actuality.”
Ospina stated it was confirmed on the trial in April that Sancho had purchased knives, plastic luggage and cleansing provides earlier than the crime and stored them within the room the place the killing occurred.
In accordance with IMDB, Rodolfo Sancho has dozens of movie and TV credit to his identify and starred in “El Ministerio del Tiempo” (“The Ministry of Time”). Â