Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief Daniel Sancho Bronchalo, a Spanish YouTube chef, was sentenced Thursday to life in prison for a gruesome murder and dismemberment in Thailand.
The case was documented in a Spanish-language HBO documentary. Sancho is the son of prominent Spanish film and TV actor Rodolfo Sancho and Silvia Bronchalo, who has crew credits and is reported to have acted as well.
The judgement was announced in the Koh Samui Provincial Court and related to a case in which Sancho was accused of murdering Colombian surgeon Edwin Arrieta Arteaga, chopping up his body and disposing of the body parts.
The two men were on holiday on Koh Panang, a nearby island known for its full moon rave parties. The court initially sentenced Sancho to death for the “premeditated murder” of Arrieta, but it reduced the sentence to life imprisonment as he had cooperated with the court.
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