The heartbreaking message from Edwin Arrieta’s lawyer weeks after learning the sentence against Daniel Sancho

One year since Edwin Arrieta was murdered in Thailand. It was on August 3, 2023 when the Colombian surgeon traveled to Thailand to meet Daniel Sancho to spend a few days on vacation in the Asian country. The The last images where the doctor was seen alive were in the company of the Spaniard. shortly before they entered the hotel where they were supposed to spend the night and where the macabre crime took place.

Twelve months later, his family is still demanding justice. will be at the end of this month of August when the Koh Samui court judge announced the sentence to Rodolfo Sancho’s son; an intention that could lead the accused to life imprisonment or to the death penalty, in the worst case. The Prosecutor’s Office holds three charges against the Spaniard: premeditated murder, concealment of the body and destruction of other people’s documents, that is, Arrieta’s passport.

A little more than three weeks after hearing the sentence, Juan Gonzalo Ospina, lawyer for the victim’s family, publishes a heartbreaking message on his social networks in which he is not only paying homage to Edwin but also It gives the feeling of parents who have been living in hell for a year.

The hell of Arrieta

“Today marks one year since this terrible and heinous crime (…) My love to a humble and hard-working family that, in no sense, overnight, They lost a loved one and had to endure the pressure of the media“Ospina writes on his Instagram profile.

“Thank you to the Arrieta family for their trust in us as their lawyers a judgment that has already marked our lives (…) Strength and hope on such a painful day. Thanks to so many people for their messages of support, which we have sent to the family. Trusting in a short time they will be able to find peace and tranquility in their hearts and lives,” said the lawyer.

In recent days, the defenders of Daniel Sancho have issued a final report to the Koh Samui court in which They eliminate the investigative evidence that calls for prejudice of crime. For its part, the Prosecutor’s Office – in Thailand there is no private prosecution – has chosen not to present more documents because “the law takes into account the evidence presented through the “The report has no bearing on the court’s deliberations. Everything became clear during the long days of oral examination,” prosecutor Jeerewat Sawatdihai admitted. in “Public Mirror”.

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