Overview
- Angela Bacares told magistrates she felt reassured by the crew and was ‘not worried, just curious’ when she awoke to the yacht’s sudden motion minutes before it rolled over.
- Captain James Cutfield and two crew members remain under investigation for manslaughter and shipwreck and have denied any responsibility for the disaster.
- An interim report from the UK Marine Accident Investigation Branch highlighted undocumented design vulnerabilities that left the vessel susceptible to extreme gusts below its certified wind limits.
- Divers and the Hebo LIFT salvage consortium raised the wreck in June, retrieving CCTV footage and encrypted drives now central to the technical and legal inquiry.
- Magistrates must decide whether survivor testimony and forensic findings from the as-hored Bayesian provide sufficient grounds to bring the crew to trial.