A young YouTube chef has allegedly confessed to murdering and dismembering his gay lover on Thailand's Full Moon Party island.
Daniel Sancho Bronchalo, the son of Spanish
actor Rodolfo Sancho Aguirre and actress Silvia Bronchalo is accused of
battering Colombian plastic surgeon Edwin Arrieta Arteaga to death on Koh Pha
Ngnan last Wednesday.
The 44-year-old's body parts, including his
hips and thighs, were found by shocked locals at a rubbish dump on Thursday,
August 3.
Social media star Sancho, 29, had arrived in
Thailand on July 31 as a tourist and had confessed to the authorities to killing
Mr Arrieta in an argument over 'sex and money', local police said.
It was gathered that the chef cut the body
into 14 pieces before dumping them in the sea and other places around the
island before filing a missing persons report.
Officers claim the pair, who had been in a
relationship for a year - knew each other before arriving on the island to
attend a party together last week.
This morning the Spaniard was pictured in the
company of police on a walk of the island, where he allegedly directed officers
to a spot on the beach where he used to kayak to dump other body parts. Police
divers later recovered the victim's head and hands.
He has now been detained in custody and put
on suicide watch ahead of a court appearance in Thailand on Monday.
Police Lieutenant General Surapong Thanomjit
said the chef would be charged with 'premeditated murder and secretly moving or
destroying a corpse to conceal a death or the cause of death'.
He said: 'The suspect has confessed to being
the one who killed Edwin Arrieta Arteaga and dismembered the body. He put the
parts in a suitcase and left them in the sea.
'He claimed that the victim was angry when he
refused to sleep with him. Then he punched him in the head, causing him to fall
over and hit the bathtub, so he cut the body to disguise the death.
'Investigators found traces of the victim's
body in the hotel room the suspect booked.'
'He admitted it,' Koh Pha Ngan's police chief
Panya Niratimanon, told AFP, adding the investigation is ongoing.
'The victim and the suspect knew each other
before they came to Thailand, and his dubious activities indicate that he might
murder the victim,' Panya said.
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