The Thai Police transferred Sancho this Monday to present his case before a judge

The Thai Police will transfer this Monday the Spanish Daniel Sancho, suspected of murdering the Colombian surgeon Edwin Arrieta, to the island of Koh Samui (southern Thailand), where he will go to court, according to police sources.

Once in Samui, the neighboring island of Koh Phangan, where the alleged murder took place, a judge must decide whether to file official charges against Sancho, who, if so, will most likely be imprisoned until trial.

The possibility of him being released on bail until then is low given the seriousness of the case.

For the moment, Sancho remains at the Koh Phangan police station.

The 29-year-old has been there since he began being questioned on Friday as a suspect in the murder and dismemberment of Colombian plastic surgeon Edwin Arrieta, to which he pleaded guilty to Thai police on Saturday.

The Spaniard has told EFE that the Thai police have treated him well during the process.

The family of Sancho, son of the Spanish actor Rodolfo Sancho, has hired a private office for the defense of the young man, according to confirmed sources close to the case, although for the moment the Thai public defender continues to represent him.

Arrieta's body was dismembered and the first remains, the pelvis and a right leg, were found in the tourist resort Koh Phangan on Thursday and Friday, respectively, according to the police report, which details that the limb was found in a landfill in the island.

Police have confirmed that the head has also been recovered and that the remains of the body have been identified as belonging to Arrieta.

“I was Edwin's hostage”

Arrieta, 44, was a plastic surgeon from the Colombian town of Lorica, in the department of Córdoba (north).

In a conversation with EFE, Sancho pleaded guilty to the crime and assured: “I am guilty, but I was Edwin's hostage. held me hostage. It was a glass cage, but it was a cage.”

According to the police report, Sancho arrived in Koh Phangan on July 31 and on August 1 bought knives and black and green garbage bags from a shop on the island.

He himself points out that Arrieta did not arrive on the island until Wednesday, August 2, and that Sancho went to pick him up (at the arrival point of the ferry from Samui) at 3:05 p.m.. Both then went together to a bar near the Bougain hotel, where they stayed until 6:00 p.m., to go to another place afterwards.

Sancho himself reported on Thursday night at the Koh Phangan police station the disappearance of his friend at dawn on August 3.