KOH SAMUI, Thailand: A Thai courtroom 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 courtroom 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 had been pleased with the result.
“The plaintiff is glad with the sentence as a result of he shall be put in jail for all times they usually obtain some monetary compensation,” Bussakorn informed reporters outdoors the courtroom on the island of Koh Samui.
“The decision has been delivered, each side have the fitting to attraction based on Thai regulation,” Bussakorn added.
When requested about Sancho’s response, she stated: “He’s unhappy, however we won’t neglect the lack of the lifeless one”.
The trial heard that Sancho chopped up Arrieta’s physique and put the components in plastic luggage 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’ve 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’d launch an attraction.
Rodolfo Sancho and Silvia Bronchalo, the defendant’s mom, left courtroom with out talking to reporters.
