The jury in the trial of an East Yorkshire businessman accused over a plane crash that killed footballer Emiliano Sala has been sent home for the night.

The small plane carrying 28-year-old Sala crashed into the English Channel off the coast of Guernsey on a stormy evening in January 2019, during a trip from his French club in Nantes to Cardiff City, who had signed him in a multimillion-pound transfer deal.

The Argentinian striker and the pilot David Ibbotson, 59, both died in the incident, Cardiff Crown Court has heard.

The aircraft operator, David Henderson, 67, of Hotham, East Yorkshire, has denied a charge of endangering the safety of an aircraft in a prosecution brought by the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA).

The jury has spent today considering its verdict.

Jurors heard he arranged the flight with former football agent William "Willie" McKay but was unable to fly the plane himself because he was away with his wife in Paris.

Instead, he asked Mr Ibbotson, who regularly flew for him despite not holding a commercial pilot's licence or a qualification to fly at night, and whose rating to fly the American aircraft, a single-engine Piper Malibu, had expired.

Henderson has already pleaded guilty to a separate offence of attempting to discharge a passenger without valid permission or authorisation.

The jury will return to court tomorrow to continue its deliberations.