(Files) This undated handout photo released by Humberside Police on February 2, 2026 shows Vladimir Motin, the Russian captain of the cargo ship Solong that hit an anchored oil tanker in the North Sea in March, 2025, at an undisclosed location. (Photo by Handout / Humberside Police / AFP)
London: A UK court on Thursday handed a six-year jail sentence to the Russian captain of a cargo ship that hit an anchored oil tanker in the North Sea last year.
Sentencing Vladimir Motin at London's Old Bailey court for the manslaughter by gross negligence of Filipino sailor Mark Angelo Pernia, Judge Andrew Baker told him he had been an "accident waiting to happen".
The 38-year-old seaman who died was married with a young child. He was lost at sea following the crash and his body has never been recovered.
