Thailand jails son of Spanish actor Rodolfo Sancho for life over grisly murder

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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.  Read more at https://shorturl.at/Ku1mx  WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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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.

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