Jailed former Costa Concordia captain Francesco Schettino has said he will return to being a 'ship boy' after losing his final Italian appeal.
The country's highest criminal court rejected his bid for freedom last week, following his conviction and 16-year sentence for manslaughter, causing a shipwreck and abandoning ship after the cruiseship hit rocks and capsized in 2012, killing 32 people.
The Daily Telegraph said the first thing he did on returning to his new cell was clean it out.
“I started from the bottom and worked my way up to become captain. Even that January night after the shipwreck when they detained me in a cell it felt like I was back in that old cabin as a young sailor,” he told Il Messaggero.
“So as soon as I got here, I cleaned the dirty bathroom and I thought, okay, I have to react. I will start over as ship boy.”
Schettino had been living at home for five years while his appeal went through the courts.
His lawyer Saverio Senese said he intends to appeal now to the European Court of Human Rights.
