The trial against the younger Spaniard Daniel Sancho for the alleged homicide of the Colombian surgeon Edwin Arrieta in Thailand resumed this Wednesday on the island of Samui with in precept the testimony of three police officersprincipally forensics, who participated in the investigation of the case.
The new witnesses of the Prosecutor’s Office testify in the Samui Provincial Court in a listening to that started round 10:00 native time (05:00 in mainland Spain), after the five-day break for the Buddhist New Year or Songkran of the Oral trial that has been held against the 29-year-old Spaniard since April 9, amid huge media consideration.
Among the witnesses this Wednesday is Police Chief Yuttakan Chenramfrom the Surat Thani provincial police station and in cost of accumulating forensic proof from the room of Daniel Sancho’s resort wherein Arrieta died and was dismembered on August 2.
This week’s three hearings, from Wednesday to Friday, will likely be held once more at door closed and with the choose’s prohibition on giving particulars of what occurs in the small courtroom, which accommodates round twenty folks, together with representatives of the protection and the prosecution, along with the witnesses of that day.
Both the father of the accused, the actor Rodolfo Sancho, and his mom, the funding analyst Silvia Bronchalo, have attended the trial once more, which is scheduled to happen till May 3along with two representatives of the Spanish Embassy who take part as observers, since the Spaniard faces a doable loss of life penalty.
Representing Arrieta’s household, he attended Thai lawyer Mettapon Suwancarernwho acts as co-accusation alongside with the prosecutor and who stated at the entrance to the courtroom that “each he and his group” are “ready” for this second week of the oral trial targeted on forensic proof.
The public defender in cost of Sancho’s protection, Apirchat Srinual, identified that the translation issues in the first days have been solved in precept with the English interpreter who helps the accused throughout the witness statements, for which “appears much less annoyed.”
At his personal request, the accused has an interpreter from Thai to Spanish, who was not in the room final week and who did her work by videoconference, which generated some issues.
The lawyer additionally defined that Sancho continues to “cooperate” throughout the hearings and might ask inquiries to the witnesses after they end their statement and after asking the choose for permission.
The younger Spaniard initially confessed to the premeditated homicide and dismemberment of Arrieta, whom he met a 12 months earlier on Instagram and with whom he had met on the vacationer island, though he later pleaded not responsible earlier than the choose, whose identification is confidential.
