BANGKOK (AP) — Thailand’s courtroom started an ordeal Tuesday of the son of Spanish actors accused of killing and dismembering a Colombian surgeon on a well-liked vacationer island.Daniel Sancho Bronchalo, 29, was once indicted by way of prosecutors in October over the loss of life of Edwin Arrieta Arteaga, whose stays had been discovered crammed in plastic luggage at a landfill on Koh Pha Ngan, an island well-known for its rave-style “complete moon events.”Attorney Juan Gonzalo Ospina Serrano, who represents Arrieta’s circle of relatives, informed journalists on the Koh Samui Provincial Courtroom sooner than the trial that the circle of relatives trusts Thai prosecutors to ship justice.“They’re thankful and hope that Thai regulation is forceful and that the reality will also be informed,” he mentioned.The costs towards Sancho come with premeditated homicide, concealment of a frame and destruction of folks’s paperwork, which is expounded to the alleged harmful of the Arrieta’s passport. Sancho pleaded now not to blame to premeditated homicide and destruction of paperwork however pleaded to blame to hiding the sufferer’s frame.The price of premeditated homicide carries a imaginable loss of life penalty. The utmost sentence for harmful different’s paperwork carries a most sentence of 5 years in jail and a 100,000 baht ($2,750) high quality. The concealment or harmful of a frame carries a yr in jail and a 20,000 baht ($550) high quality.The trial is opening with statements from witnesses introduced in by way of the plaintiff, mentioned Apichart Srinual, a Thai attorney who represents Sancho.When requested whether or not he’s assured about his protection case, Aprichart mentioned “it will depend on the proof,” including that “there are numerous witnesses. It will depend on what they’ll say.”Sancho was once pushed to the courtroom in a closed automobile and was once now not visual to journalists ready out of doors. Sancho’s father, Spanish actor Rodolfo Sancho, additionally got here to the courtroom however declined to remark.Sancho, a chef, was once arrested in August after the stays of Arrieta, 44, had been came upon on the landfill.Police mentioned Sancho got here in to record a lacking individual and was once due to this fact detained. He later reportedly confessed to killing and dismembering Arrieta and dumping the frame portions within the landfill and the ocean, even though he denied that his motion was once premeditated, in step with police.
