The lack of some results of the DNA tests makes it impossible for the police report on the murder and dismemberment of the Colombian surgeon to be delivered to the Prosecutor’s Office this week Edwin Arrietaconfessed by the Spanish daniel sanchoaccording to a police source told EFE on Thursday.
The police station on the island of Phangan, in southern Thailand and where the crime took place on August 2, has received “some results of the DNA tests, but not all,” said one of the agents in charge of the investigation without offer more details.
The agent affirmed that consequently “it is not possible” to deliver the police report to the Prosecutor’s Office on Friday, as he had anticipated on Monday in an interview with EFE Surachate Hakparn, number two of the Thai Police and who supervises the case against the Spaniard.
Surachate, known as Big Joke, affirmed that they already had “sufficient evidence” and that he expected the report to be sent to the Prosecutor’s Office this week, so that the trial could begin from three to six months. The Phangan agent justified today that “many” tests have been sent to be analyzed, without specifying how many.
According to a police document, among them are clothing, eight human parts as well as black and green plastic bags where human remains were foundand which have been sent for analysis to the Bangkok Institute of Forensic Medicine, among other specialized centers.