Sancho, a chef together with his personal YouTube channel, was additionally ordered to pay 4 million baht
The son of a well known Spanish actor has been sentenced to life imprisonment for killing and dismembering a person on the Thai island of Koh Phangan final 12 months. Daniel Sancho Bronchalo, the son of tv star Rodolfo Sancho Aguirre, claimed he acted in self-defence when he killed Colombian plastic surgeon Edwin Arrieta Arteaga. He pleaded responsible to the homicide in August 2023, BBC reported.
Sancho, now 30, advised the Spanish information company EFE on the time that he had been a “hostage” to Arrieta, whom he described as obsessive about him. The case has attracted vital consideration in Spain, with many journalists travelling to Thailand to cowl the trial.
Sancho was discovered responsible of premeditated homicide, concealing a corpse, and destroying property.
A court docket on the close by island of Koh Samui, the place the trial happened, initially sentenced him to demise for homicide. Nonetheless, this was lowered to life imprisonment attributable to his cooperation in the course of the trial.
Sancho, a chef together with his personal YouTube channel, was additionally ordered to pay 4 million baht ($118,000) to compensate Arrieta’s household. Bussakorn Kaewleeled, the sufferer’s household lawyer, expressed satisfaction with the decision.
“The plaintiff is glad with the sentence as a result of he (Sancho) shall be put in jail for all times and so they (the plaintiff) obtain some monetary compensation,” Bussakorn advised reporters exterior the Koh Samui court docket, as reported by AFP information company.
Police discovered components of Arrieta’s physique at a landfill in Koh Phangan in early August final 12 months.
Round that point, Sancho reported to the police that Arrieta, then 44, was lacking. After additional questioning, Sancho confessed to the homicide.
Thai media reported that investigations had proven Sancho had bought a knife, rubber gloves, and a bottle of cleansing agent, main police to conclude the homicide was premeditated.
Sancho later led police to seven places across the island the place he had disposed of Arrieta’s dismembered physique in plastic luggage.
Experiences said that Sancho and Arrieta had agreed to fulfill after changing into acquainted on-line.
The defence argued that Sancho acted in self-defence when Arrieta tried to power him right into a sexual encounter. In a press release revealed by the Spanish newspaper El Mundo, Sancho mentioned the plastic surgeon “tried to rape [him].”
Sancho comes from a household of actors; his mom is actress Silvia Bronchalo, and his grandfather was the late actor Felix Angel Sancho Gracia.