Jury retires for ferry crash court case

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The two ferry workers both deny four charges

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The jury has retired to consider its verdicts in the trial of two ferry workers accused of gross negligence manslaughter.

Jersey's Royal Court has heard three weeks of evidence regarding the deaths of L'Ecume II's skipper Michael Michieli, 62, and crew members Larry Simyunn, 33, and Jervis Baligat, 31.

Lewis Carr, 30, and Artur Sevash-Zade, 35, both deny three counts of gross negligence manslaughter over the collision between the Commodore Goodwill and L'Ecume II on 8 December 2022.

The pair also deny a breach of Jersey's shipping law relating to a failure to discharge duties related to their ship in a manner likely to cause "loss destruction, death or injury".

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