The captain of a motorboat which crashed right into a sailboat off Italy’s Amalfi coast, killing a U.S. vacationer, has been jailed for greater than 4 years for manslaughter, his lawyer mentioned Friday.
Adrienne Vaughan, 45, the top of the U.S. department of Bloomsbury publishing home, died after she was flung from the motorboat within the vacation hotspot in southern Italy in August 2023.
Italian skipper Elio Persico, 32, was sentenced by a Salerno choose to 4 years and 9 months in jail after requesting a plea cut price, lawyer Liberato Mazzola instructed AFP.
Persico had examined constructive for cocaine and alcohol on the time.
Vaughan had been on the boat along with her husband and two youngsters, aged 12 and eight, and had been sunbathing when the motorboat crashed right into a sailboat carrying party-goers.
She was flung overboard and hit by the propellers. Her daughter was additionally thrown into the ocean however was unhurt.
A video printed by the New York Publish confirmed company on the sailboat in the course of the collision, with one lady asking, “What happened?”
“This boat, it collided with us,” a person responds frantically, earlier than operating throughout the deck.
Moments later, one other visitor says: “She needs help.”
“I saw the woman in the water being held up by her children and her husband,” he mentioned. “It was terrible.”
Vaughan was pulled out of the water and delivered to a dock however died by the point a helicopter ambulance arrived, state TV mentioned on the time.
When the motorboat crashed, it had been headed to Positano, some of the fashionable locations alongside the Amalfi Coast, Italian media mentioned.
View of Positano on the Amalfi Coast from Praiano, Italy.
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Vaughan was president of Bloomsbury Publishing Inc., writer of the Harry Potter sequence.
“Adrienne Vaughan was a leader of dazzling talent and infectious passion and had a deep commitment to authors and readers,” mentioned the board chair, Julia Reidhead, and president and CEO, Maria A. Pallante, in a joint assertion after the incident. “Most of all she was an extraordinary human being, and those of us who had the opportunity to work with her will be forever fortunate.”
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