Day-by-day chronology of the Daniel Sancho case: the fight, the discovery of the body and the confession
Daniel Sancho has gone from being a practically unknown character to becoming the talk of the media in just 24 hours. The young man, 29 years old and son of actor Rodolfo Sancho, confessed this Saturday to having killed and dismembered a friend in Thailand, where he was spending a few days on vacation.
The also grandson of Sancho Gracia and chef at the La Bohéme catering service in Madrid, entered the Koh Samui prison in southern Thailand on Monday, after a judge from the island's provincial court ordered provisional detention for the young man for the alleged murder of Colombian Edwin Arrieta.
Sancho will remain in this prison at least until the trial begins and will meet with his lawyer this Tuesday.. These are all the key dates of the terrible case according to the data of the case and the investigations of the Police:
Before July 31
Edwin Arrieta reserves a hotel in Koh Phangan for a stay between July 31 and August 3. The reservation is made for two guests in that room.
Monday July 31
Daniel Sancho arrives on Koh Phangan alone and checks into the hotel where a few days later he would share a room with his alleged victim, Edwin Arrieta, a 44-year-old Colombian surgeon.
Tuesday August 1.
Sancho buys a knife, gloves, a sponge, a cleaning pad, garbage bags, and cleaning products like bleach.. That same night, around 9:00 p.m., he goes to a store on a nearby beach to buy a kayak, where he offered up to 1,000 euros.
Wednesday August 2
Surgeon Edwin Arrieta, 44, arrives on the island. Sancho picks him up at the port and they go to dinner and then to the hotel.. They argue and Sancho kills the surgeon. Later, according to the Police, Sancho cut the corpse into 14 fragments that he divided into several bags: some he took to a landfill and others he tried to throw into the sea in the kayak he had bought the day before.
Thursday August 3
Sancho cleans the room and bathroom in detail and leaves the hotel. At night he attends a party with a woman. Simultaneously, Koh Phangan's Moo 4 district landfill workers find bags with remains of what appears to be a hip and pieces of intestines. The news jumps to the local media. That same night, Sancho denounces the disappearance of Arrieta, about whom he says he has not heard from the previous day.
Friday August 4
Thai police find Arrieta's legs and clothes in the same dump. Sancho is arrested and, at first, denies his involvement. However, it has some scratches and marks that make them suspicious.
Saturday August 5
The Thai Police interrogates Daniel Sancho for several hours. He assures that he did not feel comfortable “but neither was he forced” to confess. Finally, and after DNA tests were taken, he confesses to being the author of the events. “I am guilty, but I was Edwin's hostage. held me hostage. It was a glass cage, but it was a cage. It made me destroy the relationship with my girlfriend, it has forced me to do things that I would never have done,” he said in his statement at the police station before several policemen and already with his public defenders.. The news hits the international media.
Monday August 7
Rodolfo Sancho, father of the alleged murderer, issues a statement in which he asks for the “maximum respect” while the young man goes with the Thai Police to rebuild the crime. The Spaniard enters the Koh Samui prison, in southern Thailand, after a judge from the island's provincial court decreed provisional detention.