5 convicted over deadly Concordia shipwreck
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July 21, 2013, Sunday
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AN Italian court yesterday accepted plea bargains for five suspects in the Costa Concordia cruise ship disaster, under which they will serve prison sentences ranging from 18 months to two years and 10 months, media reported.
The five include Roberto Ferrarini, the director of ship owner Costa Crociere's crisis unit, Jacob Rusli Bin, the luxury liner's Indonesian helmsman, as well as a deputy of Captain Francesco Schettino and two other crew members.
Schettino, who is accused of multiple manslaughter and abandoning ship, is currently the only one standing trial for the deadly accident off Giglio island in Tuscany which claimed 32 lives in January 2012.
On Wednesday, when Schettino's trial opened, his lawyers requested a sentencing deal of three years and five months in prison for admitting responsibility but were refused. They renewed the request yesterday.
Civil plaintiffs have expressed fury over the clemency offered Schettino's co-defendants.
Under the plea agreements accepted by the court in Grosseto in the central Tuscany region, Ferrarini received the longest sentence of two years and 10 months in prison.
Manrico Giampedroni, the cabin services director, faces two years and six months in prison, while captain's deputy Ciro Ambrosio got 23 months.
Rusli Bin, the liner's Indonesian helmsman who misunderstood the captain's orders at the moment of the crash, received 20 months in jail and officer Silvia Coronica got 18 months.
The Grosseto court set the next hearings in Schettino's trial for September 23 to 27. A new of surveillance camera footage, admitted as evidence on Thursday will be shown in the hearings to follow.
The luxury liner crashed into the Giglio rocks on the night of January 13, 2012, with 4,229 people on board.
The five include Roberto Ferrarini, the director of ship owner Costa Crociere's crisis unit, Jacob Rusli Bin, the luxury liner's Indonesian helmsman, as well as a deputy of Captain Francesco Schettino and two other crew members.
Schettino, who is accused of multiple manslaughter and abandoning ship, is currently the only one standing trial for the deadly accident off Giglio island in Tuscany which claimed 32 lives in January 2012.
On Wednesday, when Schettino's trial opened, his lawyers requested a sentencing deal of three years and five months in prison for admitting responsibility but were refused. They renewed the request yesterday.
Civil plaintiffs have expressed fury over the clemency offered Schettino's co-defendants.
Under the plea agreements accepted by the court in Grosseto in the central Tuscany region, Ferrarini received the longest sentence of two years and 10 months in prison.
Manrico Giampedroni, the cabin services director, faces two years and six months in prison, while captain's deputy Ciro Ambrosio got 23 months.
Rusli Bin, the liner's Indonesian helmsman who misunderstood the captain's orders at the moment of the crash, received 20 months in jail and officer Silvia Coronica got 18 months.
The Grosseto court set the next hearings in Schettino's trial for September 23 to 27. A new of surveillance camera footage, admitted as evidence on Thursday will be shown in the hearings to follow.
The luxury liner crashed into the Giglio rocks on the night of January 13, 2012, with 4,229 people on board.
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