(ANSA) - ROME, AUG 27 - Bayesian captain James Cutfield did
not reply to prosecutor's question on last Monday's sinking near
Palermo of British tech tycoon Mike Lynch's superyacht because
he is exhausted and because his legal team have not had time to
put a defensive case together against possible charges of
negligent manslaughter in a disaster that killed Lynch, his
daughter Hannah and five others, the Kiwi skipper's lawyer said
after the fruitless questioning session Tuesday.
"The commander exercised his right to remain silent for two
basic reasons," said the 51-year-old expert sailor's attorney,
Giovanni Rizzuti.
"One is that he is exhausted. The second reason is that we were
appointed yesterday and we need to get a series of data which we
do not at present posses in order to set out a full,
comprehensive and correct defensive line.
Cutfield, 51, is under investigation by prosecutor Raffaele
Cammarano on possible charges of culpable shipwreck and multiple
negligent manslaughter. (ANSA).
Bayesian captain 'exhausted' says lawyer
Didn't reply due to fatigue, our need to frame defence - lawyer