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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Raphael Boyd

Russian captain of ship that hit tanker off UK guilty of killing crew member

An oil tanker torn apart
The damage caused to the tanker Stena Immaculate after being hit by Motin’s container ship, the Solong. Photograph: Humberside Police/Reuters

The Russian captain of a ship that crashed into an oil tanker off the Yorkshire coast has been found guilty of killing a crew member in the collision.

Vladimir Motin, a 59-year-old from St Petersburg, was on sole watch when his ship, the Solong, collided into the Stena Immaculate oil tanker near the Humber estuary on 10 March last year. Mark Angelo Pernia, a 38-year-old Filipino man, was killed in the wreck.

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