Film star’s son gets life sentence for killing, dismembering plastic surgeon

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Film star’s son gets life sentence for ********, dismembering plastic surgeon

A Thai court jailed a famous

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for life on Thursday for the

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on a tropical holiday island in a case that has gripped Spain.

Daniel Sancho Bronchalo, a 30-year-old

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, was found guilty of the premeditated ******* of Edwin Arrieta Arteaga on the tourist island of Koh Phangan last August.

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Daniel Sancho Bronchalo, the son of Spanish actor Rodolfo Sancho Aguirre is escorted while assisting Thai police with investigations after he was arrested on charges of ******* in the ****** and dismemberment of his Colombian traveling companion Edwin Arrieta Arteaga on the tourist island of Koh Phangan, Thailand on August 7, 2023. / Credit: ********* / REUTERS

The case has generated enormous interest in Spain because the defendant’s father, Rodolfo Sancho, is a well-known actor, and scores of Spanish reporters flew in for the trial.

Sancho’s mother, Silvia Bronchalo, has also been in acting and both parents were at the sentencing, The Associated Press reported, adding that both are 49.

Bussakorn Kaewleeled, a lawyer for the victim’s family, said the family members were happy with the outcome.

“The plaintiff is satisfied with the sentence because he will be put in prison for life and they receive some financial compensation,” Bussakorn told reporters outside the court on the island of Koh Samui.

“The verdict has been delivered, both sides have the right to appeal according to Thai law,” Bussakorn added.

When asked about Sancho’s reaction, she said: “He is sad, but we can’t forget the loss of the ***** one.”

The court at first sentenced Sancho to ****** but commuted that to life imprisonment due to his cooperation during the trial, the AP reported, citing Police Col. Paisan Sangthep, deputy commander of the Surat Thani Provincial Police, who attended the hearing.

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Spanish actor Rodolfo Sancho leaves the Koh Samui Provincial Court on August 29, 2024 after his son, Daniel Sancho Bronchalo, was handed a life sentence for the ******* of Colombian plastic surgeon Edwin Arrieta Arteaga on the island of Koh Pha Ngan in August 2023. / Credit: LILLIAN SUWANRUMPHA / AFP via Getty Images

Lurid details of Arrieta’s ******

Sancho claimed he ******* Arrieta, 44, in self-defense and admitted hiding the body but denied destroying the Colombian’s passport.

The trial had testimony that Sancho chopped up Arrieta’s body and put the parts in plastic bags before distributing them around Koh Phangan.

Sancho led police to seven sites where he allegedly disposed of the victim’s dismembered body in plastic bags, CBS News partner network BBC News 

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While Thailand still has the ****** penalty for some *******, including premeditated *******, it rarely carries out executions — the last being in 2018.

Arrieta’s family said before the verdict that they favored a sentence of life imprisonment.

“Let him be left in Thailand so he can take time, all the time that **** gives him to live, to think about what he did,” Darling Arrieta, the victim’s sister, said in an HBO documentary about the case.

“He not only dismembered my brother, he dismembered a family.”

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A picture of the Colombian surgeon Edwin Arrieta Arteaga, murdered by Daniel Sancho in Thailand, is displayed during a ceremony at a ******* in Monteria municipality, Cordoba department, Colombia, on August 10, 2023. / Credit: Photo by JOSE PERDOMO / AFP via Getty Images

Disputed versions of events

Sancho and Arrieta agreed to meet in person after getting to know each other online.

Sancho’s father said in the same HBO documentary that Arrieta had threatened his son, and then “there was a ******, and in this ******, there was an accident.”

The defense argued that Sancho acted in legitimate self-defense after Arrieta tried to force him to have ****.

“He tried to ***** me, and we fought,” Sancho said in a statement quoted by the Spanish daily El Mundo.

Sancho testified that Arrieta fell as they fought and hit his head on a bathtub, lost consciousness and *****, the AP reported.

Another lawyer for the victim’s family, Juan Gonzalo Ospina, said in a recent interview with El Mundo that Sancho was living a “false reality.”

Ospina said it was proven at the trial in April that Sancho had bought knives, plastic bags and cleaning supplies before the ****** and kept them in the room where the ******** took place.

According to 

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, Rodolfo Sancho has dozens of film and TV credits to his name and starred in “El Ministerio del Tiempo” (“The Ministry of Time”).

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