Watch live from the Old Bailey in London as a Russian captain is sentenced after being found guilty of manslaughter by gross negligence following a fatal North Sea collision.
Vladimir Motin, 59, was convicted after his container vessel, the Solong, crashed into the Stena Immaculate, an anchored US oil tanker, near the Humber Estuary last March.
Both vessels were laden with flammable goods, and were engulfed in the resulting blaze.
Filipino crew member Mark Angelo Pernia, 38, who was on the bow of the Portuguese-flagged Solong, was killed in the collision.
His body has never been found.
Read more on the Sky News website and app: https://news.sky.com/story/sea-captain-found-guilty-of-killing-crew-member-in-north-sea-collision-with-us-oil-tanker-13500946
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