Sailor traumatised by yacht tragedy that killed wife


ALOR SETAR: The man whose wife died after she was hit by a boom on his yacht is traumatised by the tragedy.

“The incident will haunt me for life. I do not know when I will go sailing again,” said Anthony John, 70, who collected the ashes of Shelley Elizabeth Mahoney, 63, yesterday.

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