Blood diamonds

Authors

  • Виктор Федорович Сидорченко St. Petersburg State University, 7/9, Universitetskaya nab., St. Petersburg, 199034, Russian Federation

Abstract

The article describes the tragic destiny of a sea liner “Morro Castle” and the majority of its passengers and crew members. The vessel was on its voyage. One of the passengers who was obviously tended to committing crimes learnt that there were diamonds 7 million dollars worth in the safe of 73-year-old multimillionaire Cathleen Morrison. Being obviously tended to committing theft and even murders, he stole the diamonds. The captain Willmott discovered the theft and started the investigation. Fearing the disclosure, the thief poisoned the captain, gravely wounded Cathleen Morrison and then set fi re to the vessel as a result of which 140 people died, mainly women and children, and the vessel was burnt.

Keywords:

killing people, blood diamonds, fire to the vessel

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Вестник Санкт-Петербургского университета. Право

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Published

2014-06-27

How to Cite

Сидорченко, В. Ф. (2014). Blood diamonds. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Law, (2), 137–138. Retrieved from https://lawjournal.spbu.ru/article/view/3396

Issue

No. 2 (2014)

Section

Chapters of history

License

Articles of "Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Law" are open access distributed under the terms of the License Agreement with Saint Petersburg State University, which permits to the authors unrestricted distribution and self-archiving free of charge.