GROSSETO, Italy — The captain of the capsized Costa Concordia cruise ship was convicted and sentenced Wednesday to 16 years and one month in prison for multiple counts of manslaughter, causing a shipwreck and abandoning ship in the 2012 disaster that killed 32 people.
The sentence handed Francesco Schettino was significantly less than the 26 years and 3 months requested by prosecutors, who insisted that the Concordia's captain was a "reckless idiot."
The three-judge panel handed down 10 years for multiple counts of manslaughter, five years for causing the Jan. 13, 2012, shipwreck, and one year for abandoning the ship while many of the luxury liner's 4,200 passengers and crew were still onboard. He also was sentenced to one month for false communications to maritime authorities. Read more...
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