Bayesian witness questioned by authorities

(ANSA) - ROME, AUG 31 - Authorities have questioned for over two hours Rosalinda Orlando, who owns a shipyard in Porticello and says she witnessed the Bayesian sink in front of the coast in the night of August 19.
    The shipwreck killed seven people including the yacht's owner, British magnate Mike Lynch.
    In an interview published by Milan daily Corriere della Sera, Orlando said she had gone to the shipyard on the night of the shipwreck and saw the 56-metre-long luxury yacht "sway" in freak weather conditions, "pulled by a dragging anchor" and heard the sail "flap".
    Investigators have questioned her, judging her testimony relevant to the probe.
    In particular, investigators wanted to determine whether the sail had not been properly lowered, creating further instability during the violent weather event that led to the ship sinking.
    Orlando also said in the interview that she had told coast guards the location chosen by Bayesian crew members to cast anchor and spend the night was not a good one.
    Temini Imerese prosecutors probing the shipwreck have placed three crew members under investigation - captain James Cutfield, from New Zealand, British ship engineer Tim Parker Eaton and sailor Matthew Griffiths, who was on watch duty on the night the Bayesian sank off the coast of Porticello near Palermo. (ANSA).