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Investigation ongoing into 25 October incident involving Nave Andromeda vessel
A sailboat close to the Nave Andromeda oil tanker in Southampton docks after the incident in October. Photograph: Henry Nicholls/Reuters
A sailboat close to the Nave Andromeda oil tanker in Southampton docks after the incident in October. Photograph: Henry Nicholls/Reuters
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Police have charged two men in connection with the alleged hijacking of a tanker off the coast of the Isle of Wight in October.
Matthew John Okorie, 25, and Sunday Sylvester, 22, appeared in court on Saturday charged with an offence relating to conduct endangering ships, Hampshire constabulary said.
27 Dec 2020
Two men appeared in Southampton Crown Court on Saturday, charged with alleged crimes relating to a major security alert in the English Channel that led to British special forces raiding an oil tanker.
Matthew John Okorie, 25 and Sunday Sylvester, 22 were charged with endangering a ship under the UK’s Merchant Shipping Act 1995 and will appear in court again in January for trial. They are two of seven men who were arrested onboard the Nave Andromeda oil tanker in October after the crew reported the presence of stowaways on the ship.
All of those arrested are reported to be of Nigerian origin, and the operators of the Greek ‘owned’, Liberian-flagged ship said they believed the men boarded the ship while it was moored off Lagos.