Kirsty MacColl’s ex says ‘nobody believes’ true killer was caught in speedboat demise ‘cowl up’

The ex-husband of Kirsty MacColl has mentioned that ‘nobody believes’ the one who was blamed for driving the speedboat that killed her was actually accountable.

MacColl was a singer who very famously lent her voice to the basic Christmas track ‘Fairytale of New York’ alongside The Pogues and her ex-husband Steve Lillywhite, who produced the tune, told The Solar listening to the track gave him and his youngsters a ‘bittersweet feeling’.

“It’s a bittersweet feeling as a result of whenever you hear Fairytale, it does offer you feeling. It makes you consider Christmas and the whole lot,” he mentioned.

“And you recognize, we will’t convey Kirsty or Shane again, nevertheless it additionally reminds us of these individuals who have handed. They each died close to Christmas. That’s the bizarre factor.”

MacGowan died in November 2023, whereas MacColl was killed 25 years in the past in December 2000 when she was struck by a speedboat whereas on vacation along with her sons.

She had travelled to Cozumel, Mexico, with sons Jamie and Louis and her boyfriend James Knight, and whereas there she took her sons diving on a reef which should have been secure because it was a watercraft-restricted zone.

Nonetheless, a speedboat raced in the direction of MacColl and her sons simply as they surfaced from the water, with the singer pushing her sons out of the best way.

She and Jamie had been struck by the speedboat’s propellor, although because of his mum pushing him out of the best way Jamie’s oxygen tank took many of the hit for him and he solely suffered minor accidents.

MacColl was extra straight struck by the speedboat, struggling severe accidents to her head and chest and she or he was killed virtually immediately.

The boat was owned by a Mexican businessman named Carlos González Nova, however a person named José Cen Yam claimed he’d been driving the vessel regardless of not being licenced to take action.

Yam was discovered responsible of culpable murder and sentenced to 2 years and 10 months in jail, however he prevented it by paying a £61 fantastic, and Lillywhite mentioned ‘nobody believes’ that he was really driving the boat.

He mentioned: “They mentioned that it was a younger child driving, however nobody believes that.

“I feel they only didn’t need to have an unlimited lawsuit as a result of he was one of many richest guys in Mexico.”

There was a marketing campaign organised by Kirsty MacColl’s mom Jean Newlove and backed by the likes of U2 making an attempt to place collectively judicial appeals, however Nova died in 2009.