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Sean Michieli and Gabriella Querino died in a boating accident in the Tessera Canal, Venice, on Saturday, September 12. Following a collision with a water taxi, Michieli was hospitalised but later succumbed to his injuries, while Querino’s body was discovered days later near Campalto.
An investigation into the incident has been opened, focusing on potential manslaughter, with the water taxi driver, aged 38, currently under questioning. Simone Venturini, the mayor of Venice, emphasised the necessity for improved regulations and monitoring of water traffic to ensure safety in the lagoon following the tragic event.
Simone Venturini, the mayor of Venice, described the incident as “a tragic event that gripped our entire city and ended in a very painful way,” while Democratic Party regional councillor Monica Sambo emphasised the need for increased regulation and monitoring of water traffic in Venice. An investigation into manslaughter has been launched, with police questioning the 38-year-old water taxi driver involved in the incident.
What remains unclear — The exact circumstances leading to the collision between the couple’s boat and the water taxi have not yet been determined.
Couple die in boating accident in Venice months after their wedding
Sean Michielli and Gabriella Querino have died months after tying the knot (Picture: Sean Michieli)
A couple on holiday in Venice have died in a boating accident, months after saying ‘I do’.
Sean Michieli and Gabriella Querino died on Saturday, September 12, while visiting the Italian city, which is close to where Michieli, 25, grew up.
He was from Burano in the northern part of the lagoon, while his wife Querino, 26, was from Brazil, according to local outlets.
They had been struck by a water taxi while in a small boat at around 5am to 6am in the Tessera Canal, with the husband taken to hospital in critical condition.
Querino was reported missing, and a search quickly began using firefighter divers, jet skis, a maritime unit, and a helicopter to find her.
On Sunday evening, Michieli succumbed to his injuries, which included a head injury and abdominal trauma, after undergoing surgery.
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Their boat was allegedly hit by a water taxi (Picture: Sean Michieli)
Querino’s body was later found on Tuesday morning near the island of Campalto, nearly two kilometres from the crash site.
People reported that Querino, who moved to Italy two years before, had been pregnant at the time with the couple’s first child.
Simone Venturini, the mayor of Venice, described the incident as ‘a tragic event that gripped our entire city and ended in a very painful way.’
An investigation has been opened into manslaughter, with a 38-year-old water taxi driver questioned by police.
The man’s lawyer said he had been ‘devastated for days’ and routine toxicology tests have been carried out, but the results have not yet been revealed.
According to the suspect, he had been transporting two clients to Marco Polo Airport, with all his boat’s lights on due to the early morning darkness.
Querino’s body was found days later after going missing (Picture: JamPress)
He claimed that Michieli and Querino’s boat was travelling at high speed without lights when they allegedly collided.
Democratic Party regional councillor Monica Sambo said that officials were waiting for the results of the investigation to ‘fully clarify the circumstances of the accident’.
Sambo added: ‘[This highlights] the need for serious regulation and monitoring of water traffic [in Venice], as well as proper canal lighting to ensure the safety of everyone navigating the lagoon.’
It’s thought that the couple had been out on the boat together in search of bait as Michieli worked as a fisherman.
Luca Zaia, president of the Regional Council of Veneto, called it ‘an immense tragedy for a family that was just beginning to build their future’.
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‘Cheer up, you caught the bad guy,’ says killer Virginia McCullough as she is arrested for murdering her parents
A woman who murdered her parents “in cold blood” before hiding them in makeshift tombs for four years told officers to “cheer up, you caught the bad guy” as she was arrested in her home.
Virginia McCullough, 36, poisoned her father John McCullough, 70, with prescription medication and fatally stabbed her mother Lois McCullough, 71, shortly afterwards in 2019.
She ran up large debts on credit cards in her parents’ names and after their deaths, she continued to spend their pensions until she was finally caught in 2023.
In body-worn video footage released by police, a handcuffed – and eerily calm – McCullough told officers: “I did know that this would kind of come eventually.
“It’s proper that I serve my punishment.”
She said she had slipped something into her father’s drink then put his body under a bed on the ground floor, and put her mother’s body in an upstairs wardrobe.
McCullough, having been arrested on suspicion of double murder, told an officer: “Cheer up, at least you’ve caught the bad guy.”
She added: “I know I don’t seem 100% evil.”
At the police station, she told officers where a kitchen knife was, which she described as a “murder weapon”, and a hammer which she said “will still have blood on it”.
McCullough, of Pump Hill, Chelmsford, Essex, was sentenced to life imprisonment on Friday with a minimum term of 36 years at Chelmsford Crown Court, after she admitted to their murders between 17 and 20 June 2019 at an earlier hearing at the same court.
Chelmsford Crown Court heard how she hid their bodies in makeshift tombs at the family home in Great Baddow in Essex, then told persistent lies to cover her tracks.
The court heard she cancelled family arrangements and frequently told doctors and relatives her parents were unwell, on holiday or away on lengthy trips.
But concerns over Mr and Mrs McCullough’s welfare were raised in September 2023 by a GP at their registered practice, and Essex County Council’s safeguarding team referred these to police.
The GP had not seen the couple for some time and said Mr McCullough had failed to collect medication and attend scheduled appointments. It was found McCullough had frequently cancelled appointments, using a range of excuses to explain her father’s absence.
Police said a missing persons investigation was initially launched and McCullough lied to officers, claiming her parents were travelling and would be returning in October.
It became a murder investigation, and when officers forced entry to the house in Pump Hill on September 15 2023, McCullough confessed that her parents’ bodies were in the house and that she had killed them.
Nicola Rice, a specialist prosecutor for the Crown Prosecution Service, said: “McCullough callously and viciously killed both of her parents before concealing their bodies in makeshift tombs within their home address.
“She spent the next four years manipulating and lying to family members, medical staff, financial institutions, and the police, spending her parents’ money and accruing large debts in their name.”
She added: “This was a truly disturbing case, which has left behind it a trail of devastation, and I can only hope that the sentence passed today will help those who loved and cared for Lois and John begin to heal.”
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Defense alliance NATO chief Mark Rutte has met US President-elect Donald Trump to discuss global security issues, according to a NATO spokesperson.
The meeting took place in Palm Beach, Florida.
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Rutte took over as NATO chief from Norwegian Jens Stoltenberg in November.
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Multiple missiles were fired in an airstrike towards a densely populated part of Lebanon’s capital early on Saturday.
The huge airstrike targeted Beirut’s Basta neighbourhood, and no prior warnings were given by the Israeli military. The largely residential area was struck last month.
At least one violent explosion was heard across the city, Reuters witnesses said, and plumes of smoke could be seen. Scenes of massive destruction at the site were shared online, including a massive crater in the ground.
“Beirut, the capital, woke up to a horrific massacre, as the Israeli enemy’s air force completely destroyed an eight-story residential building with five missiles on Al-Mamoun Street in Basta,” the state-run National News Agency reported.
The health ministry put the initial death toll at four, with 23 wounded. The number is expected to climb in the coming hours as search and rescue efforts continue.
It came after a long day of Israeli airstrikes on Beirut’s southern suburbs, which have been non-stop since last week.
The cross-border fighting between Israel and the Iran-backed Hezbollah militant group escalated into a full-blown war in mid-September.
Israel has bombed southern Lebanon, Beirut’s southern suburbs and the eastern Beqaa region, and has sent ground troops across the border. Hezbollah has continued to fire rockets deeper into Israel.
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