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A UK tribunal connected Thursday (February 5, 2026) handed a six-year jailhouse condemnation to the Russian skipper of a cargo vessel that deed an anchored lipid tanker successful the North Sea past year, sidesplitting 1 unit member.
Vladimir Motin was an "accident waiting to happen," Judge Andrew Baker said arsenic helium sentenced the skipper astatine London's Old Bailey tribunal for the manslaughter by gross negligence of Filipino sailor Mark Angelo Pernia.
"This was a gross nonaccomplishment to place the collision risk," helium said.
The 38-year-old seaman who died had been joined with a young child. He was mislaid astatine oversea pursuing the clang and his assemblage has ne'er been recovered
Pernia's woman had been large with the couple's 2nd kid astatine the clip of the "wholly avoidable" accident, the justice said.
"The blasted for it lies squarely astatine your hands," helium said, adding that "no condemnation tin bring Mr. Pernia backmost oregon region the large symptom oregon grief for the nonaccomplishment of him".
A assemblage earlier this week convicted Motin, from Saint Petersburg, aft 8 hours of deliberation.
The collision astatine velocity successful March 2025 acceptable some vessels ablaze and triggered a monolithic offshore rescue operation.
The assemblage was told Motin was a "highly trained" sailor who had captained the cargo vessel the Solong for 15 years.
But the prosecution insisted that helium "did thing to debar the collision" successful which the Solong collided with the oil-laden Stena Immaculate.
"He could, and should, person acted differently" erstwhile his vessel was connected "an evident collision course" with the tanker, barrister Tom Little told the trial.
Speaking earlier, authoritative Michael Gregory said the mishap had been caused by Motin's "truly exceptionally atrocious negligence".
