• Thailand.The Spanish Artur Segarra, sentenced to death, loses the last appeal

The King of Thailand has commuted the death sentence to which the Spanish Artur Segarra was sentenced, for the murder in 2016 of his compatriot David Bernat in Bangkok, to life imprisonment, which paves a future extradition.

The Corrections Department confirmed this Monday that the Spanish is among the inmates who benefited from the royal pardon on the occasion of the 68th birthday of King Vajiralongkorn of Thailand, which was published last Friday.

The pardon on capital punishment and the imposition of life imprisonment opens the door for the inmate, who has been in prison since February 2016 , to initiate the request for transfer to a prison in Spain once he has completed at least eight years of imprisonment .

In addition, according to the opinion of the judges, the convicted person must return to the family of the victim about 20,000 euros that he managed to steal from the deceased's credit cards.

On November 20, 2019, the Supreme Court of Thailand upheld the sentence and upheld the death penalty against the Spaniard for the kidnapping, robbery and premeditated murder of his compatriot , among other crimes.

Segarra, who throughout the judicial process maintained his plea of ​​innocence, confessed for the first time, on December 23 of last year, to be the author of the crime in a letter to ask the monarch for mercy and avoid his execution.

The convict admitted in the letter, to which Efe had exclusive access, that on the night of January 19, 2016 he killed Bernat when he reacted violently during an abrupt fight with the victim, although he avoided commenting on what happened after the murder.

According to the investigations accepted by the Justice, Segarra planned the kidnapping of Bernat with the aim of appropriating the money that the victim had in a bank account in Singapore, before assassinating him between January 26 or 27, dismembering the body and throwing it into the river that crosses Bangkok.

Among the investigations is the purchase before the crime of a freezer to store the lifeless body or the rental of a house on the outskirts of Bangkok where he hid some of the material used in the murder.

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