KOH SAMUI, Thailand: A Thai court docket on Thursday (Aug 29) jailed a well-known Spanish actor’s son for all times for the grisly homicide of a Colombian plastic surgeon on a tropical vacation island, in a lurid case that has gripped Spain.
Daniel Sancho Bronchalo, a 30-year-old chef, was discovered responsible of the premeditated homicide of Edwin Arrieta Arteaga on the vacationer island of Koh Phangan final yr.
The case has generated huge curiosity in Spain as a result of the defendant’s father Rodolfo Sancho is a well known actor and scores of Spanish reporters have flown in for the trial.
The court docket on the island of Koh Samui stated in a press release that Sancho had been given a life sentence and ordered to pay 4.4 million baht (round US$130,000) to Arrieta’s household.
Bussakorn Kaewleeled, a lawyer for the sufferer’s household, stated they have been pleased with the result.
“The plaintiff is happy with the sentence as a result of he can be put in jail for all times and so they obtain some monetary compensation,” Bussakorn informed reporters outdoors the court docket on the island of Koh Samui.
“The decision has been delivered, each side have the correct to enchantment in keeping with Thai regulation,” Bussakorn added.
When requested about Sancho’s response, she stated: “He’s unhappy, however we will not neglect the lack of the useless one”.
The trial heard that Sancho chopped up Arrieta’s physique and put the components in plastic baggage earlier than distributing them round Koh Phangan.
“We did not anticipate it (the life sentence) however we should settle for what the Thai justice has stated, we now have to respect it,” Carmen Balfagon, a lawyer for Rodolfo Sancho, informed reporters.
Marcos Garcia-Montes, one other Spanish lawyer representing the Sancho household, stated they might launch an enchantment.
Rodolfo Sancho and Silvia Bronchalo, the defendant’s mom, left court docket with out chatting with reporters.
