Daniel Sancho Bronchano, son of actor Rodolfo Sancho, has spoken for the first time after learning this Saturday that he murdered and dismembered the Colombian surgeon Edwin Arrieta Arteaga in Thailand. Daniel Sancho has acknowledged in statements to Efe that he is guilty of the murder, but that he did it because he felt like a hostage.
“I am guilty, but I was Edwin’s hostage. He held me hostage. It was a glass cage, but it was a cage. He made me destroy my relationship with my girlfriend, he forced me to do things that I would never have done, “has insured the 29-year-old Spaniard during a conversation in front of his Thai public defenders and several agents at the Koh Phangan police station, where he has been detained since Friday.
Although the official charges against him have not arrived until late this Sunday, when a Thai court has approved the request of the Police to formally arrest him for the murder.
When asked if he felt forced by the police to plead guilty, Daniel Sancho replied: “I didn’t feel comfortable, but I didn’t feel forced either.” “I felt that I didn’t have any other option either. They took DNA tests and that’s it. That’s it,” he added.
Daniel Sancho, who will go to court this Monday on the neighboring island of Koh Samui, has denied that he had a romantic relationship with the surgeon, whom he has accused of being obsessed with him and threatening him.
“He was obsessed with me. He deceived me, he made me believe that what he wanted was to do business with me, to put money in the company of which I am a partner. That we do things together, that we go to Mexico, Chile, Colombia, to open a restaurant But it was all a lie. The only thing he wanted was me, to be his boyfriend,” he said.
The Spaniard, who arrived in Thailand on July 30 and on the island of Phangan on August 1, has reported that the Colombian surgeon decided to join his trip. “Every time I tried to get away from him, he would threaten me,” he has said.
During the conversation with EFE, the suspect insisted that the Thai authorities were treating him well, and that “no one has hit me or hurt me”, and revealed that he had spoken with his father and friends during his arrest.
In relation to his father, the actor Rodolfo Sancho, he has said that he believed he was on his way to Thailand and that he would arrive in Samui on Monday or Tuesday.
Thai agents have taken Daniel Sancho this Sunday to different parts of the island to reconstruct the crime, police sources have confirmed to EFE, including Haad Rin beach, where the young man was supposedly with Arrieta shortly before his disappearance.
Edwin Arrieta Arteaga, 44, was a surgeon from the Colombian town of Lorica, in the department of Córdoba (north).
“Edwin’s departure hurts our souls. A great human being, friend and excellent professional. Our most sincere condolences and a big hug for all his relatives,” Carlos Ordosgoitia, mayor of Montería, the capital, wrote on his Twitter account. From Cordoba.
The Arrieta family reported this Saturday that they will not make statements so as not to hinder the investigation into his murder.
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