Father of drowned woman may sue boat operators over death

A HEARTBROKEN father, who watched two cruise boat operators walk free from court after they were convicted of manslaughter in the drowning death of his daughter, may sue the men in a civil action.

Joseph Kinsella said the loss of his student daughter, Catherine, 20, in the accident off Cape Cod in the US, where she was on a summer working holiday, was a “tragedy that should never have happened”.

Struggling to hold back tears in court in Boston as he told the sentencing judge about Catherine, Mr Kinsella, described her as a giving person who led the way for her four younger siblings. “We did all we could for her and she repaid us one hundred-fold. Life will never be the same for us or our family”, he said.