The messages that the Spanish chef is said to have exchanged on WhatsApp Daniel Sancho and the doctor Edwin Arrieta, in Thailand, come to light to give a new look and greater impact to the murder of the surgeon who, which took place in August 2023, has not stopped making news in the last five months .

In November 2023, Daniel Sancho, held since August 5 for the murder of doctor Edwin Arrieta, pleaded not guilty to the murder. On January 12, 2024, his lawyers reported that several “irregularities” had occurred in the prosecution of the Spaniard for this infamous case.

“We can assure that irregularities have taken place… we have discovered that the Thai police deceived Daniel,” said the defense team of actor Rodolfo Sancho’s son, published in Antena 3.

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They also stated that Thai authorities “did not correctly transcribe Daniel Sancho’s first confession.”

According to the lawyers, the Spanish media report, the statements do not coincide with the recordings to which they have now been able to gain access.

Now, some WhatsApp messages between the chef and the surgeon, originally from Lorica, Colombia, are drawing the attention of everyone who has been following the case of the murder and mutilation of Edwin Arrieta.

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WhatsApp messages “on everyone’s lips”

In La Vanguardia they published on Thursday, January 25, 2024 that the program “En boca de todos” had access to the summary of the case, and therefore “a series of WhatsApp messages” that the Spaniard and the victim are said to have come to light exchanged.

Likewise, ABC and other media are highlighting one message in particular: a message Sancho is said to have written to Arrieta hours after his death.

WhatsApps start like this, according to the Spanish press:

-It’s raining, Edwin writes to Sancho

To which he responded: “Mazo, we have to wait a little longer before moving, we are going to have a drink here. Koh Pangan welcomes you with the opening of heaven.”

He replied that they must be ‘blessings’.

– “I’m already waiting here because you would arrive in 20 minutes,” Daniel wrote to Edwin.

The doctor told him he was “going for a walk.”

-Ah, great, you arrive and you are going to make a plan yourself and I will wait for you here in the port, Sancho replied.

-You’re angry… hahaha, Edwin Arrieta replied.

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As explained in La Vanguardia, this would be the message after Edwin’s death.

-I’m very worried. I haven’t seen you in hours. You had all your stuff, the money, the cell phone, I have to call the police.

According to Spanish media, Sancho said he went to the hotel “after looking for him on the beach where they had both been before.”

Two weeks ago, the EFE agency reported that Daniel Sancho remains in pre-trial prison for the death of the Colombian surgeon on August 2, 2023 on the Thai island of Phangan.

The chef, the Spanish agency said, “faces a possible death penalty ahead of the trial that will take place on April 9, 2024.” (JO)