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Rower stabs top coach to death
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A LEADING international design consultant has been stabbed to death by a young British rower at a training camp in the French Riviera.
Marcello Minale, 58, chairman of the Minale Tattersfield design company and president of London's Tideway Scullers School rowing club, was killed on Saturday after an argument in a marina car park. Mr Minale suffered several stab wounds.
His killer, one of 30 rowers at a warm weather training camp, tried to escape, but his car plunged into the lake. He was rescued by fellow rowers, arrested, and treated briefly in hospital before being taken to the police station in the nearby town of Fayence.
The 23-year-old rower, who has not been named, appeared before a special court in Draguignan yesterday when the police successfully applied for permission to hold him for further questioning.
Mr Minale rowed for his native Italy in his youth, but had lived in Britain for 40 years and was president and chief benefactor of the Tideway Scullers, whose club is based beneath Chiswick Bridge in west London.
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