This was Edwin Arrieta, the Colombian surgeon allegedly murdered by Daniel Sancho: "He went to mass every Sunday"

The news of the murder of the Colombian plastic surgeon Edwin Arrieta Arteaga in Thailand, allegedly at the hands of the Spanish Daniel Sancho, has shocked the world, which is still waiting for news.

The Thai police have assured that the son of actor Rodolfo Sancho has pleaded guilty to the murder and dismemberment of Arrieta. “He wanted to be my boyfriend, every time I tried to get away from him he threatened me,” Sancho said during a conversation in front of his Thai public defenders and several officers at the Koh Phangan police station.

Arrieta, 44, was a plastic surgeon originally from Lorica, in the Colombian province of Córdoba, although he worked in the city of Montería, where his clinic was located.. “Lately, I was also working in Chile,” Nidia Serrano, a journalist for El Universal and a friend of the deceased, told La hora de la 1.

As indicated by Arrieta's website, he performed various surgical procedures related to aesthetics, such as rhinoplasty, mammoplasty or hair grafts.. “Dr. Arrieta cares for generally healthy patients who, due to their age, weight, measurements, or the malpractice of other cosmetic surgeries, do not feel comfortable with their physical appearance, and decide to make changes to their bodies to obtain greater facial harmony. and bodily”, he wrote on his website.

As published by the Colombian newspaper El Tiempo, Arrieta graduated in Medicine from the Metropolitan University of Barranquilla. He obtained the title of plastic, aesthetic and reconstructive surgeon at the University of Buenos Aires.

“I went to mass every Sunday”

“Edwin and I were partners in the group of proclaimers of the Church to which he belonged, in the city of Montería,” Serrano explained to the TVE cameras.. “He was funny and had a good temper. He believed a lot in God, he went to mass every Sunday,” he said.

El Tiempo also recounts that one of Arrieta's various hobbies was playing polo. Serrano explains that the surgeon was passionate about “dancing and good food”, but that he had a favorite hobby. “His great passion was traveling; he was always planning his next destination,” added the journalist.

From Colombia, Arrieta's family has issued a statement indicating that they would not make statements to the media “so as not to hinder the investigation protocol.”

The mayor of the town of Lorica, Jorge Negrete López, has also published his condolences on social networks.

The town will be in mourning for three days, with the celebration of several masses to say goodbye to its neighbor. Serrano, on behalf of all of Arrieta's close circle, has expressed his shock: “For all Edwin's acquaintances, this has been a great surprise. We did not imagine such a tragic, painful and uncertain ending.”