The tearful mother of a 15-year-old girl killed in a speedboat crash has branded the skipper a “coward”, as he and the company owner avoided being sent to prison.
Michael Lawrence, 55, who was driving the boat, was found not guilty of manslaughter by gross negligence, but guilty of failing to maintain a proper lookout and failing to proceed at a safe speed. Michael Howley, 52, the owner of the now defunct Seadogz which ran the boat trips, was convicted of not operating the boat safely.
