The captain of the Costa Concordia has lost his final appeal bid.
Francesco Schettino was sentenced to 16 years in prison in 2015 after a court found him guilty of manslaughter, causing a maritime accident and abandoning ship.
On Friday the sentence was upheld by Italy’s highest criminal tribunal, the Court of Cassation.
The ship capsized after hitting rocks off the Tuscan island of Giglio in 2012 killing 32 people.
Schettino had handed himself in to the Rebibbia prison in Rome after the verdict, according to the BBC.
More than 4,000 passengers and crew were aboard the Costa Concordia during a Mediterranean cruise.