Author: EFE,AP Associated Press
A Spanish citizen, Daniel Sancho, has been sentenced to life in prison by a Thai court for the murder of Colombian surgeon Edwin Arrieta on Koh Pha-ngan. Sancho, a YouTube chef and the son of Spanish actors, was found guilty of premeditated murder, concealing a body, and destroying the victim’s passport. Despite a death sentence being initially given, it was commuted to life imprisonment due to Sancho’s cooperation. Ordered to pay €106,000 to Arrieta’s family, Sancho confessed to dismembering the body but denied premeditated murder, claiming self-defense. Trash collectors found body parts in a fertilizer sack before Sancho reported Arrieta…