A Russian captain was on Thursday jailed for six years over the death of a crew member lost at sea when his cargo ship hit an anchored oil tanker in the North Sea.
Vladimir Motin, 59, had been on sole watch duty when his ship, the Solong, crashed into the Stena Immaculate anchored just off the coast of Yorkshire, northeastern England, last March.
The collision triggered a huge fire and a major rescue operation.
Motin was an “accident waiting to happen”, judge Andrew Baker said as he sentenced…
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