Topic: John Turner

New regulations, including penalties for 'boating under the influence'. are being contemplated amid concerns of reckless behaviour on the water.

Former boat captain Sean Michael McDonald has been sentenced to seven years and one month in jail for a 2019 boating accident that claimed the lives of two people and injured another.

Prosecutors are calling for a prison sentence of up to 12 years for Sean Michael McDonald, who killed two people and injured another after his boat collided with their vessel as both boats returned from a Sunday outing at Rum Point in 2019.

Sean Michael McDonald was found guilty today, 2 Aug., of two counts of manslaughter in the deaths of two people who were killed after his boat collided with their vessel as both boats returned a Sunday outing at Rum Point in 2019.

More than two years after being charged with manslaughter following a collision at sea in which two people died, boat captain Sean Michael McDonald, 38, appeared in court on Tuesday as his two-week trial began.

Boat captain Sean Michael McDonald denied responsibility for a boating accident that claimed the lives of two people and injured another. McDonald, a Canadian, pleaded not guilty on Friday, 24 Jan., to two counts of manslaughter and one count of causing grievous bodily harm.

Sean-Michael McDonald, 35, of George Town has been charged with two counts of manslaughter and one count of assault causing actual bodily harm following a boat collision in August in which two people died.

Police have made no arrest or laid any charges in connection with a fatal boat crash last month that claimed the lives of two men and left one woman seriously injured.

Police are appealing for witnesses to Sunday night’s fatal boat crash in which Emmanuel Brown, 49, and John Turner, 70, were killed.