Bowbelle skipper trial jury fail to reach verdict
- Title
- Bowbelle skipper trial jury fail to reach verdict
- Genre
- Press conference
- TX Date
- 31 Jul 1991
- Year of production
- 1991
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- Duration
- 00:01:21
- Description
- Press statement by Michael Caplan, solicitor for Douglas Henderson, captain of the Bowbelle dredger which collided with the pleasure boat, Marchioness, on the River Thames on 20/08/89 with the loss of 51 lives. The comments come following the end of the retrial of Captain Henderson when the jury failed to reach a verdict.
- Contributors
- Michael Caplan
- Keywords
- London; Trials; River Thames; Boats; Disasters (events); Verdicts; Ship masters; Marchioness; Bowbelle; Douglas Henderson; Marchioness disaster (1989)
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