The Thai Police have assured that they are convinced that the death of Edwin Arrieta it was not an accident as he assured daniel sancho. A conclusion that they have indicated that they have reached after conducting an investigation.

Therefore, they have assured that Daniel Sancho committed a premeditated murder, something that in Thailand is usually condemned with the death penalty.

The lawyer for Daniel Sancho’s family, Carmen Balfagón, has acknowledged that the parents they are “frankly bad” following the conclusions reached by the Thai authorities. In addition, he has recognized that they were already aware that if it was concluded that it had been premeditated, this would be the penalty he would have to face.

“I have no doubt that they are going to impose the death penalty,” Carmen Balfagón acknowledged, indicating that now the position they must adopt is one of “respect for the police investigation and for what is done at the judicial level.”

Despite the fact that she is convinced that she will be sentenced to death, the lawyer has confessed that she does not believe that it is a sentence that is going to be executed. “You have to work to lower it to a formal level,” she stressed.

The truth is that, if so, Daniel Sancho he would not be the first Spaniard to be sentenced to capital punishment. In 2016, the Catalan Artur Segarra was arrested for the murder of his compatriot David Bernat in the Southeast Asian country.

With a APB from Spain since 2015 for evading justice, Segarra was accused of kidnapping, torturing and dismembering businessman David Bernat, also a Catalan, and trying to dispose of his body by throwing it into a river in the capital, Bangkok. Some facts with which he was sentenced to death.

However, in 2020 he was granted a royal pardon by the Thai monarch. In this way, he saw his sentence reduced to life imprisonment, which opened the door for the prisoner to initiate a request for transfer to a prison in Spain. At the moment, he is still in the Bang Kwang maximum security prison in Bangkok pending his future transfer, for which there is still no date.