Captain in fatal migrant boat journey to Canary Islands jailed for eight years
by Sam Jones in Madrid from on (#59ZS0)
Abdallah Wazri sentenced after journey from Morocco in which woman and baby girl drowned
A boat captain who smuggled migrants from Morocco to the Canary Islands has been jailed for eight years and ordered to pay more than 160,000 in compensation after a woman and a one-year-old girl drowned while attempting to reach Europe last year.
Another woman is believed to have died in the accident but her body has never been found.
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