Man driving speedboat that killed Kirsty MacColl speaks out for first time in 25 years
The person who was driving the speedboat that killed Kirsty MacColl has spoken out for the primary time.
It’s been 25 years because the ‘Fairytale of New York’ singer was struck whereas diving in Mexico together with her sons, Jamie and Louis.
They had been simply surfacing from the water in what was stated to be a watercraft-restricted zone when the speedboat raced in direction of them, with MacColl pushing her kids out of the way in which. Each Jamie and her had been struck by the propeller however he solely suffered minor accidents together with his oxygen tank taking a lot of the blow. Nevertheless, MacColl suffered severe accidents to her head and chest, virtually immediately killing her.
Jose Cen Yam claimed to be driving the speedboat owned by the late Mexican billionaire Guillermo Gonzalez Nova whereas her ex-husband, music producer Steve Lillywhite, claims it was a ‘cover up’.
The previous deckhand has now told the Mail on Sunday that the ‘fact’ is that it was him who was driving the boat, sticking to his police assertion from 2000.
“The household [of Gonzalez Nova] by no means put stress on me to confess to something I did not do. I’ve at all times informed the reality about this,” Cen Yam stated.
He stated Gonzalez Nova was ‘completely not’ the person on the helm of the speedboat, as there have been claims over the yr the billionaire paid the deckhand to lie.
The outlet add that Cen Yam now lives a ‘easy life’ as a handyman and doesn’t present any ‘of the outward trappings of wealth or consolation’.
He claims that he was going ‘at about 5 miles an hour’ and ‘didn’t see anybody within the water’.
“However then I heard a propeller make a really unusual noise,” he continued. “It was actually bizarre, a whirring like one thing hit it. There was no bang within the boat, simply the noise of a propeller doing this bizarre stuff.
“I believed, ‘I’ve gone over one thing’. So I slowed and went to the again of the boat and I noticed her there.”
Cen Yam stated that there ‘was nothing’ he may do to avoid wasting MacColl’s life.
He remained on the scene, guaranteeing her physique didn’t float away whereas he waited for authorities.
“I do not really feel disgrace over this. It was an accident. I do not really feel it was my fault,” the person added.
Cen Yam was discovered responsible of culpable murder in 2003 and sentenced to simply beneath three years in jail however as an alternative paid the equal of $90 (roughly £60 in 2000) in fines.
Regardless of what the previous deckhand has stated, Lillywhite claims ‘nobody believes’ that he was really the one driving the boat.
“I believe they simply didn’t wish to have an infinite lawsuit as a result of he was one of many richest guys in Mexico,” he stated. Campaigns had been organised for justice however Gonzales Nova died in 2009.
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