Bayesian ship engineer, sailor under investigation

(ANSA) - ROME, AUG 28 - Termini Imerese prosecutors placed an additional two Bayesian crew members under investigation, British ship engineer Tim Parker Eaton and sailor Matthew Griffiths, who was on watch duty on the night the luxury yacht Bayesian sank off the coast of Porticello on August 19, investigative sources said Wednesday.
    Termini Imerese prosecutors investigating the shipwreck in which seven people died, including the boat's owner, British tycoon Mike Lynch, also placed under investigation the yacht's capitain James Cutfield, 51, who pleaded no contest and declined to reply to questions from State attorneys on Tuesday.
    The ship engineer is being probed on charges of suspected multiple negligent manslaughter and causing a shipwreck for possibly failing to activate security systems to close the boat's hatches and doors, which could have caused the engine room to flood, provoking a black out and contributing to the shipwreck Meanwhile Griffiths, who was on night watch on the cockpit, should have allegedly warned about the arrival of the violent weather event that led to the ship sinking, investigative sources say.
    Like the other two crew members who have been placed under investigation, the 22-year-old sailor also faces charges of suspected multiple negligent manslaughter and causing a shipwreck. (ANSA).