Six years for container ship captain who killed crew member in North Sea collision

The Russian captain of a container ship which crashed into a US oil tanker killing one of his own crew was jailed for six years as the judge described him as ‘an accident waiting to happen’. Vladimir Motin, 59, was the captain of Portuguese cargo ship the Solong which ploughed into US oil tanker the Stena Immaculate off the east coast of Yorkshire on 10 March last year. Filipino national Mark Angelo Pernia, 38, is presumed dead after his remains…