In the United States, a resident of North Carolina is on trial, who, along with his lover and friends, got drunk while sailing on a yacht and slashed a 10-year-old girl with a propeller. About this report Daily mail.
The person sitting in the dock is Quinten Kite, 40 years old. On August 2, he was horseback riding on Shearon Harris Lake with Anna Flanigan, 56, with whom he was in a romantic relationship, and five other friends. The man lost control of the yacht and crashed into the boat carrying 5th grader Brooklyn Mae Carroll, her friends and her parents.
As a result, the girl fell under the propeller and was seriously injured. It was impossible to save her. Her friend's mother lost a leg. Investigators discovered that Kight was intoxicated, with twice the legal limit of alcohol in his blood. Dozens of alcohol cans were found on the ship. Many cans were also picked up from the water.
According to the investigation, after the collision, Kite did not stop, swam about 150 meters more and then ordered the people on the yacht to throw the wine cans into the sea. This man was arrested the same day. Flanigan was arrested three days later. The investigation believes she encouraged Kite to steer the yacht while drunk. The remaining passengers and the ship's captain, who was sober at the time of the incident, also became defendants in the case because they did not intervene when a drunk man took control of the yacht in front of them.
Previously, there was news in Italy that the owner of a medical equipment supply company was chopped into pieces by the propeller of his own yacht in front of his friends and son. A man fell into the sea after a sudden gust of wind.
