News / Police name fisherman
POLICE have named the fisherman who died after falling overboard the Ballantrae-registered scallop boat King Challenger off the coast of Scalloway on Thursday last week.
Thirty four year old Scott Rennie, from Newton Stewart in Dumfries and Galloway, was airlifted to the Gilbert Bain Hospital in Lerwick within 45 minutes of the alarm being raised, but died in hospital.
The Marine Accident Investigation Branch is carrying out an investigation into the incident.
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