Spanish actor Rodolfo Sancho’s chef son, 29, ‘confesses to murdering and dismembering his gay lover, 44, in row over ‘sex and money’ before dumping body parts in rubbish dump on Thailand’s Full Moon Party island’

The son of Spanish actor Rodolfo Sancho Aguirre has allegedly confessed to murdering and dismembering his gay lover on Thailand‘s Full Moon Party island. 

Daniel Sancho Bronchalo – who is also the son of 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.

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 is alleged 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.

The chef (pictured centre on the top row) is the son of Spanish actor Rodolfo Sancho (pictured left on the top row at the Mutua Madrid Open tennis tournament in 2015)

Police say the body of Edwin Arrieta Arteaga (pictured) was found dismembered in a rubbish tip on the island of Koh Pha Ngnan on Thursday

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.

Sancho was pictured with police on a walk around of the island this morning after allegedly confessing

Police officers stand behind a cordon at a rubbish tip where Mr Arrieta’s body was found

Koh Pha Ngan is famed for white sandy beaches and draws thousands of backpackers to its notoriously wild ‘full moon’ parties.

In 2014, another tourist island Koh Tao was rocked by the double murder of two young British backpackers.

Two Burmese nationals are serving sentences of life imprisonment for the murders, but rights groups have accused Thai authorities of using the men as scapegoats.