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The twelve member jury is receiving instructions in B.C. Supreme Court in Vancouver, before they retire to deliberate whether the officer in charge of the Queen of the North, Karl-Heinz Lilgert, is criminally responsible for it to have struck Gil Island. They have to decide on where he could be held accountable on two counts of criminal negligence causing death.
It was the Lilgert’s responsibility to navigate the ferry at the time it went astray and hit land at around 12:21 a.m. PT on March 22, 2006. The reports have alleged that two people, named Gerald Foisy and Shirley Rosette, passed away while the ship sank to the bottom of Wright Sound. Justice Sunni Stromberg-Stein instructed the jury on Monday to not use the fact that Lilgert had an affair with another crewmember as a potential evidence of his character. Previously, Lilgert’s defense had stated on Thursday that Lilgert was doing his job to the best of his ability at the time the ship sank, and no evidence can prove that there was any malicious neglect of the safety of ship’s crew and passengers.
In the closing arguments of Lilgert’s defense Lawyer, Glenn Orris, he stated that in case it was a mistake on part of Lilgert, it was definitely an honest mistake and not a crime. Orris alleged that the jury shall free Lilgert and let him live what’s left of his shattered life. Whereas on the other hand, the court also heard the closing remarks of the Crown lawyers on Friday, who alleged that Lilgert’s testimony has led up to the sinking was “completely unbelievable, fabricated and concocted.”
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