British sailor jailed in US for killing wife on honeymoon boat tripA newlywed British-Australian sailor whose wife died after their yacht sank off the coast of Cuba during a honeymoon trip has been jailed for eight years in the US for her manslaughter. Lewis Bennett was sentenced on Tuesday at a Miami court for the killing of Isabella Hellmann, 41. Bennett, 42, of Poole, Dorset, was initially accused of murder and intentionally scuttling the catamaran before he pleaded guilty to the lesser charge of involuntary manslaughter. The couple had been married for three months when they set sail to St Maarten, Puerto Rico and Cuba for a delayed honeymoon in late April. He had reported the gold and silver collectables stolen from a former employer in St Maarten a year earlier.

Source: The Guardian May 28, 2019 23:58 UTC