After almost a month, This Thursday the trial against Daniel Sancho concluded in Samui (Thailand) with a plea from the accused, and is pending sentencing, which will be read in August. However, it was expected that he would go on longer, as there were witnesses who had yet to appear, although finally they haven’t done it.
The court from Samui (Thailand) on Wednesday he rejected the testimony of two defense witnesses of Daniel Sanchoa protected person and a psychologist specializing in sexual abuse, on the penultimate day of the trial of the Spaniard, accused of the murder of the Colombian Edwin Arrieta.
The judge, whose identity is confidential, did not allow Iván Campos, a psychologist specializing in sexual abuseand a protected witness allegedly harassed by Arrieta, confirmed to EFE sources of Sancho’s defense.
The reason that the judge could have given to reject the witnesses is that They were not directly related to the Sancho casewhom the Prosecutor’s Office accuses of the premeditated murder of the Colombian surgeon Edwin Arrieta on August 2 in Phangan, an island near Samui, where the trial is being held behind closed doors.
The reasons for Rodolfo’s non-declaration
Three other witnesses, Carmen Balfagón and Ramón Chipirrásfrom the Spanish legal criminological firm that advises Sancho, and the father of the accused, Rodolfo Sanchodecided not to testify considering that their arguments had already been defended during the trial and in order not to prolong the process.
Even so, lawyer Carmen Balfagón explained in And now Sonsoles the true reasons for this decision of the accused’s father. “If Rodolfo testified, he had to testify before Daniel so that he could not be contaminated,” he explained. “The judge has considered that what Rodolfo can tell is what his son has told him.”
In addition to Sancho, who testified and answered the questions of the Prosecutor’s Office and the co-accusation, also The forensic doctor Manuel Carrillo declared this Wednesdayin relation to a report he made on the death of the victim, specifically about the blow to the occipital bone.
The second to declare was forensic psychologist Pedro Mateoto analyze the behavior and reactions of the accused in relation to the dismemberment of Arrieta’s body, whose remains were scattered throughout various places on the island of Phangan.
