Two ferry crewmembers are standing trial in Jersey for the deaths of three fishermen after a fatal collision at sea in December 2022.
On 8 December 2022, the Condor Ferries vessel Commodore Goodwill collided with the fishing boat L’Ecume II about four nautical miles off the coast of Jersey. The ferry was travelling at around 19 knots (30 km/h) as it attempted to make up for a 35-minute delay. The impact sank the fishing vessel instantly.
The skipper of L’Ecume II, 62-year-old Michael Michieli, and his two Filipino crewmen, 33-year-old Larry Simyunn and 31-year-old Jervis Baligat, died in the tragedy.
Second officer Lewis Peter Carr, 30, from Sunderland, and lookout Artur Sevash-Zade, 35, a Ukrainian national, were the only two men on the ferry’s navigational bridge at the time of the collision. Both deny three counts of gross negligence manslaughter. They also deny breaching Jersey’s shipping law, which requires officers to operate their ship in a way that does not cause destruction,
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