Trial opens in Thailand for Spanish actors’ son accused over surgeon’s killing

A Thai police officer escorts Daniel Sancho Bronchalo to Koh Samui Island court, southern Thailand, for an earlier hearing (Somkeat Ruksaman/AP)

The trial of the son of Spanish actors, who is accused of killing and dismembering a Colombian surgeon on a popular tourist island, began in Thailand on Tuesday.

Daniel Sancho Bronchalo, 29, was charged by prosecutors in October over the death of Edwin Arrieta Arteaga, whose remains were found stuffed in plastic bags at a landfill on Koh Pha Ngan, an island famous for its rave-style “full moon parties”.