{"id":30061,"date":"2018-02-28T21:31:10","date_gmt":"2018-02-28T21:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/?p=30061"},"modified":"2018-03-01T15:51:44","modified_gmt":"2018-03-01T15:51:44","slug":"man-charged-with-manslaughter-in-the-deaths-of-four-crew-abaord-cheeki-rafiki","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/2018\/02\/man-charged-with-manslaughter-in-the-deaths-of-four-crew-abaord-cheeki-rafiki\/","title":{"rendered":"Man Charged with Manslaughter in the Deaths of Four Crew Abaord Cheeki Rafiki"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Yacht firm boss &#8216;carried on drinking in pub despite &#8220;urgent&#8221; warning that ship was sinking before 4 men died&#8217;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A yacht firm director carried on drinking after receiving an \u201curgent\u201d warning that one of his vessels was taking on water, a court heard.\u00a0All four men on board died when the <em>Cheeki Rafiki<\/em> sank hours later. Douglas Innes, the boss of Stormforce Coaching Limited, was in a pub when he got an email alert about the crisis.\u00a0He replied, advising the crew to make sure the life raft was ready to abandon ship, but he did not contact the UK Coastguard, the jury was told.\u00a0Innes, 43, faces four counts of manslaughter by gross negligence, which he denies. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/news\/uk-news\/yacht-firm-boss-carried-drinking-12100173\">Read more.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yacht firm boss &#8216;carried on drinking in pub despite &#8220;urgent&#8221; warning that ship was sinking before 4 men died&#8217; &nbsp; A yacht firm director carried on drinking after receiving an \u201curgent\u201d warning that one of his vessels was taking on water, a court heard.\u00a0All four men on board died when the Cheeki Rafiki sank hours later. Douglas Innes, the boss of Stormforce Coaching Limited, was in a pub when he got an email alert about the crisis.\u00a0He replied, advising the crew to make sure the life raft was ready to abandon ship, but he did not contact the UK Coastguard, the jury was told.\u00a0Innes, 43, faces four counts of manslaughter by gross negligence, which he denies. Read more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30046,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30061"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30061"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30063,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30061\/revisions\/30063"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}