Briton pleads guilty to involuntary manslaughter in wife's disappearance

Lewis Bennett faces a maximum of eight years in prison after his wife of three months went missing at sea in May 2017

A man with dual British and Australian citizenship whose newlywed wife went missing at sea as the couple sailed off the Bahamas on a belated honeymoon pleaded guilty on Monday to an involuntary manslaughter charge in federal court.

Lewis Bennett, 41, of Poole, Dorset, entered the plea at a hearing in Miami, Florida. He faces a maximum eight-year prison sentence in the May 2017 disappearance of Isabella Hellmann, his wife of just three months. The US district judge Federico Moreno set a sentencing date of 10 January 2019.

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