Daily Mirror

Brit hubby’s boat kill plea ‘not enough’

- BY GREG WOODFIELD in Miami

THE family of a woman killed honeymooni­ng on a yacht have blasted a court for letting her Brit husband dodge a murder charge.

Lewis Bennett, 41, admitted manslaught­er in a Miami court on Monday after he was previously accused of murdering his wife Isabella Hellman.

Her mother Amparo Alvarez said: ‘‘None of us agrees with the decision in court today.”

The family from Florida called his likely eight-year jail term “not enough”.

The couple’s yacht sank as they sailed from Cuba to Florida in 2017, and Isabella’s body was never found.

Prosecutor­s said Bennett, originally from Poole, Dorset, put Isabella in danger and failed to act sufficient­ly to save her.

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WIFE Isabella Hellman

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