Lawyer from Daniel Sanchoin temporary prison for the murder of Colombian Edwin Arrieta, assured this Tuesday after visiting the Spaniard in prison, that he is relaxed and that he knows what he has done.
Khun Anan met with Sancho for about an hour and a half in, as he assumes, the first independent meeting between the Spaniard and the lawyer hired by the family of Sancho, the son of actor Rodolfo Sancho, who until yesterday was represented by public defenders.
“I think he is relaxed. He knows what he did, I explained the process to him. He wants to plan how he will live here,” Anan told the media after arriving at the prison.
The lawyer will be able to visit you regularly because during the period of isolation Only lawyers can visit it.
“There are many foreigners (in prison), you can find someone to talk to,” Anan added.
In addition, as EFE managed to find out, there is at least one more Spanish prisoner in the mentioned prison, which is located in a quiet part of the island surrounded by coconut trees.
Sancho is currently in the hospital part of the prison, where he will spend the ten days of isolation required by the covid-19 protocol.
Although it is not exactly a dispensary, which is also available in the Koh Samui prison, as well Doctor, It is about a “peaceful” internal division, in which the cells are “better” and have fewer prisoners, sources close to the case assure EFE.
According to his lawyer, the period of pre-trial detention until the start of the trial can last up to 84 days, according to what was explained to EFE today by the prosecutor’s office of Koh Samui province.
During this period, the Thai police must complete their investigation and may call Sancho to testify if they deem it necessary.
Sancho has been in this prison since yesterday, said the provincial court judge koh samui ordered a temporary trip to prison where he is awaiting trial, after indictment for premeditated murder and concealment of evidence, to which the Spaniard pleaded guilty.
The young man could be transferred to a maximum security prison in Bangkok in the future.
He criminal law Thailand’s system provides for the maximum death penalty for murder crimes, although, if imposed, it is usually later commuted to life imprisonment.
The Spaniard already pleaded guilty on Saturday to the murder and dismemberment of Arrieta at the police station of Koh Phangan, the tourist island near Koh Samui where the alleged crime took place.
Arrieta was a 44-year-old plastic surgeon from the Colombian city of Lorica, in the department of Córdoba (north).
Sancho, who came to himself Koh Phangan On August 1, there a day later he met Arrieta, whom he had known for some time.
On the night of Thursday, August 3, Sancho himself reported that the Colombian had disappeared that morning, and on Friday they began questioning him as a suspect, so that he would be arrested on Saturday.
Source: Panama America
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