For a crime of wounding pending in Madrid, Spain since 2019, Daniel Sancho, currently detained in Thailand, is the main suspect in the murder and mutilation of surgeon Edwin Arrieta.

He confessed to his participation in the infamous crime on August 5, 2023. According to the EFE agency, the Madrid Public Prosecutor’s Office is opposing the request to Thailand to extradite Daniel Sancho, for a crime allegedly committed in 2019 when he was accused of assaulting a man. .

What Daniel Sancho did in Madrid

It is a fact proven by the Public Prosecutor’s Office that “he got into a taxi in Madrid without respecting the queue, for which a man reproached him and then Daniel Sancho hit him on the head, causing a broken tooth and a hole.”

In view of the event, EFE points out, the Public Prosecution Service demands “one year in prison and that the victim be compensated with 2,100 euros ($2,242).”

“I trust the truth of my grandson,” says Daniel Sancho’s grandmother and it turns out that after the murder the young chef contacted the cousin of the King of Spain: what did he ask him?

To be continued in Thailand

The defense of Sancho, who is a chef, “requested extradition to the judicial authorities.” However, EFE explains, there are “alternative” measures for extradition for the Public Prosecution Service that would allow the process to continue.

They also believe that “there is no evidence” that Sancho’s stay in Thailand “is aimed at removing him from the Spanish justice system” because “he has always been at the disposal of the Court in all summonses received.”

A very infamous murder: death penalty or life imprisonment

Sancho and the doctor Edwin Arrieta, born in Colombia, have said since August last year that they met in 2022 through the social network Instagram.

The chef waited for the surgeon in Thailand, where the horrific events took place: the doctor was beaten and his body was dismembered.

“They tried to make Edwin look like the perpetrator”: says Darling Arrieta, while a friend of the doctor criticizes actor Rodolfo Sancho and tells him that this is not a script

In the middle of the investigation, the police announced about a month ago that they would ask for the death penalty.

Regarded number two in the Thai police, Surachate Hakparn, who goes by ‘Big Joke’, quoted in 20 Minutes, stated last week: ‘If he denies the charges, he faces the death penalty, but if he pleads guilty, he will face the receive the death penalty. will be a prison sentence.” lifetime. The decision is yours.”

The police chief told Spanish media that he believes it took Daniel Sancho “a whole night” to dismember Arrieta and reportedly said: “Daniel is a chef and used to cutting corpses and bones,” 20 Minutos published, quoting space. see..

They expect him to continue working together in that Asian country. Speaking to the press, “Big Joke” “stressed that Sancho must serve the full sentence in Thailand and emphasized that if he does not want to end up ‘on death row’, he must continue to cooperate with the authorities.”

(JO)