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 12 months.
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 mentioned 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, mentioned they had been proud of the result.
“The plaintiff is glad with the sentence as a result of he can be put in jail for all times and so they obtain some monetary compensation,” Bussakorn advised reporters exterior the court docket on the island of Koh Samui.
“The decision has been delivered, each side have the precise to enchantment in keeping with Thai regulation,” Bussakorn added.
When requested about Sancho’s response, she mentioned: “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 elements in plastic luggage earlier than distributing them round Koh Phangan.
“We did not count on it (the life sentence) however we should settle for what the Thai justice has mentioned, now we have to respect it,” Carmen Balfagon, a lawyer for Rodolfo Sancho, advised reporters.
Marcos Garcia-Montes, one other Spanish lawyer representing the Sancho household, mentioned they might launch an enchantment.
Rodolfo Sancho and Silvia Bronchalo, the defendant’s mom, left court docket with out chatting with reporters.
