NEWS	08 / 02 / 07

P&O man charged over Ouzo deaths

By The MainSail

A P&O employee has been charged with the manslaughter due to gross negligence of three sailors found dead in the English Channel last year.

The three men were on board the yacht, Ouzo, which left the Isle of Wight for Devon on August 20, and then disappeared.

The bodies of Jason Downer, 35, from Kent, Rupert Saunders, 36, and James Meaby, 36, both from London, were found in the over the following three days.

Michael Hubble, from Folkestone, Kent, worked on the Pride of Bilbao ferry.

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