Fishing vessel San Aspiring next to the San Aotea in the South Atlantic in December last year. The assault case against three San Aspiring crew has been postponed. Ball, and fellow San Aspiring crew members Samuel Goldsworthy and Chassy Duncan, were due for sentencing in the Magistrate’s Court after pleading guilty to violent disorder charges on July 3. The three men were part of a Sanford crew fishing on the San Aspiring in the South Atlantic Ocean since February, who were due to return home on a specially planned retrieval mission when the assaults occurred. John Bisset/Stuff The San Aotea II, pictured leaving Timaru's port in early June, should berth back in Timaru on June 1.

Source: Stuff July 27, 2020 21:33 UTC