Cruise liner captain faces house arrest over shipwreck
The Italian news agency Ansa quoted captain Francesco Schettino’s defence lawyer, Bruno Leporatti, as saying a judge turned down prosecutors’ request to keep him in jail. But, the lawyer said, the judge also rejected a defence bid to set Schettino free.
The Costa Concordia was carrying more than 4,200 people when it hit a reef off the Tuscan island of Giglio on Friday night when Schettino made an unauthorised deviation from the cruise ship’s programmed course.
