Morethan a decade after the Prestige suffered structural failure and broke in twooff the Spanish coast an eight month criminal trial in La Coruna has hearddisturbing evidence about the condition of the aframax tanker.
Althoughit is a criminal trial there are potentially huge financial consequences as afinding that there was reckless misconduct could break the limitation availableto the vessel under the civil liability convention and allow Spain to pursueclaims of up to €1bn ($1.3bn)
