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Fatal collision happened in Spanish waters and was ‘an accident’, court told

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A Royal Gibraltar Police patrol boat was operating “well outside” British Gibraltar territorial waters in breach of force instructions when it was involved in a fatal collision with a suspicious rigid-hulled inflatable boat in Spanish waters, an inquest heard on Tuesday. Officers on the RGP vessel Sir John Chapple had switched off navigation aids that...

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