Four other Spaniards are serving sentences in the same prison where Daniel Sancho will be admitted after pleading guilty to the murder of his Colombian friend Edwin Arrieta. The prison in particular is that of Lard Yao, in Bangkok, Thailand.

Two of the Spaniards imprisoned in this prison are for blood crimes. One of them, Artur Segarra, is sentenced to death as the author of the premeditated murder and subsequent dismemberment of David Bernat, also a Spaniard, in 2016.

In total, according to data from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, as of July 31 of this year, there are 908 Spaniards serving sentences in foreign prisons: 794 men and 114 women. The country with the most Spanish inmates is France, where 187 people (169 men and 18 women) are serving their sentences.

It is followed by Germany, where there are 129 Spanish inmates (114 men and 15 women) and in third place on the list is Morocco, where 99 Spaniards (92 men and 7 women) are serving their sentence, according to official data.

Most of the cases are for drug trafficking, many of them young people arrested when carrying small amounts of drugs, especially in southern Europe, or for acting as mules with several kilos of drugs, some cases that occur more in South America. .

Regarding the number of imprisoned women, these represent 12% of the total and, in their case, the link to drug trafficking rises to 63%.