A Thai court on Thursday (Aug 29) jailed Daniel Sancho for life for the high-profile murder and dismembering of a Colombian man last year on the popular tourist island of Koh Phangan. Sancho is the son of Spanish actor Rodolfo Sancho.
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00:00The Koh Samui Provincial Court on Thursday sentenced Thailand-based Spanish chef Daniel
00:07Sancho to life imprisonment for murdering his lover last year on the popular tourist
00:13island. The 30-year-old accused had pleaded guilty to concealing the victim's body but
00:19denied premeditated murder.
00:21Throughout the trial, Sancho had maintained the killing of Colombian surgeon Edwin Arrieta
00:26Arteaga was an act of self-defence. The lawyer representing the family of the victim said
00:33the accused has to pay for the cost of committing the murder.
00:45The court convicted Sancho of the gruesome murder that saw him killing the 44-year-old
00:50victim in Koh Phangan and dismembering his body and placed parts of it in plastic bags
00:56that he distributed around the island. Police took days to find the body parts from a cement
01:02yard of a waste disposal centre. Sancho is the son of renowned Spanish actor Rodolfo
01:08Sancho.
01:09The court also ordered the accused to pay the victim's family 4.42 million baht in compensation.