The Russian captain of a cargo ship which crashed into an oil tanker in the North Sea on Monday has been charged with gross negligence manslaughter, police have said. 59-year-old Vladimir Motin had captained the Solong container vessel as it careered into the Stena Immaculate.

Vladimir Motin, 59, of Primorsky, St Petersburg, Russia, was charged by Humberside Police with Gross Negligence Manslaughter on Friday. It comes after the search was called off for a sailor missing in the aftermath of the incident of the coast of East Yorkshire.