After confessing to killing his plastic surgeon boyfriend, 44, and dismembering his body, Daniel Sancho Bronchalo was given a life sentence.
A YouTube chef dismembered his partner and disposed of his body in plastic bags in a horrific murder.
Daniel Sancho Bronchalo, 31, confessed to murdering his plastic surgeon boyfriend, Edwin Arrieta Arteaga, on a Thai party island.
The shamed chef also admitted to dismembering Dr Arteaga’s body last August when their argument over “sex and money” reached a boiling point. It comes after a woman, 20, was found dead on bus with 26 iPhones glued to her body.
When the crime occurred, the couple had been on vacation in Koh Pha Ngnan, a city known for its nightly Full Moon Parties. In early August 2024, police in Koh Phangan discovered portions of Arteaga’s body at a landfill. Bronchalo reported that Dr. Arteaga, 44, was missing to the police around the same time.
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Bronchalo, the son of two Spanish movie stars, claimed at his trial that Dr. Arteaga allegedly attempted to sexually assault him after the pair allegedly got into a fight.
The Colombian surgeon then allegedly fell as the fight grew worse, hitting his head on a bathtub before losing consciousness and passing away.
Bronchalo had denied premeditated murder, but he later admitted to severing Dr. Arteaga’s body and dumping his lifeless remains into the sea. He led police to seven locations on the island where he dumped Dr. Arteagae’s body in plastic bags.
Prior to Arrieta’s death, the chef purchased a knife, rubber gloves, waste bags, and cleaning products at a convenience store, according to police’s surveillance video, which supported the prosecution’s claim of premeditated murder.
Bronchalo later admitted to the murder and claimed he had planned it because Dr. Arteaga threatened to discredit him and his family by revealing their sexual relationship, according to the police.
The shamed YouTube chef was sentenced to life in prison. Initially, he was given the death penalty, but the Koh Samui provincial court decided to give him a life sentence instead due to his co-operation during the trial, according to local police officer Paisan Sangthep.
Bronchalo initially served a four-month prison term for concealing or torturing a body, but as he admitted the hexagon, his sentence was reduced to two months.
Additionally, he was ordered to pay Dr. Arteaga’s family 4 million baht (£89, 000) in damages.
Rodolfo Sancho Aguirre and Silvia Bronchalo, both 50, are the sons of renowned Spanish actors. Their son’s sentence was issued last summer at the Koh Samui Provincial Court, where they were present.
HBO has produced a Spanish-language documentary based on the chilling events following Bronchalo’s case, which caused a stir in Spain.
The chef reportedly dismembered his lover’s body into 14 pieces, packed them in a suitcase, and then kayaked out into the sea to scatter them in August. Additionally, the island’s body parts were dispersed throughout.
According to the police, local residents discovered Mr. Arteaga’s remains in a trash can on the island, including his hips and thighs.
The suspect has admitted to killing Edwin Arrieta Arteaga and dismembering the body, according to police lieutenant general Surapong Thanomjit at the time.
He put the components in a boat and dumped them in the sea. When he allegedly refused to sleep with him, the victim claimed that she was furious. Then, after he hit him in the head, he cut his body to conceal the death. In the hotel room the suspect had booked, investigators discovered traces of the victim’s body.
Source: Mirror
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