British tech tycoon Mike Lynch is among the six people missing after a luxury yacht sank off the coast of Sicily in the early hours of Monday morning.
The 56m (183ft) vessel was carrying 22 people - 10 crew and 12 passengers - including British, American and Canadian nationals. Emergency services rescued 15 people, including a one-year-old British girl. Local media reported the yacht, sailing under the name Bayesian, sank after encountering a heavy storm overnight that caused waterspouts, or rotating columns of air, to appear over the sea.
Mr Lynch, known by some as “the British Bill Gates”, co-founded software company Autonomy, which was later bought by tech giant Hewlett-Packard for $11bn (£8.6bn).
Co-defendent just confirmed dead in unrelated incident. Crazy bad luck for both of them.
Have to say, I’m bfinding the coincidence hard to swallow. Especially given them being found guilty of multi billion dollar fraud against HP
Guilty in UK on civil fraud trial:
BBC News - HP wins multibillion-dollar fraud case over UK firm https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-60170510
Not guilty recently in US fraud trial
