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).

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Truly life being stranger than fiction, in that he was recently in the news after being acquitted in the US.

He had this to say on the American legal system at the time: “the reason I’m sitting here, let’s be honest, is not only because I was innocent… but because I had enough money not to be swept away by a process that’s set up to sweep you away”.

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Absolutely astonishing

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Did u read his Co defending was run over ?!?!

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You tempt fate when naming a vessel after an analytical framework of probability.

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Co-defendent just confirmed dead in unrelated incident. Crazy bad luck for both of them.

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Have to say, I’m bfinding the coincidence hard to swallow. Especially given them being found guilty of multi billion dollar fraud against HP

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Not guilty, m’lud.

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Crazy bad luck.

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You mean not guilty surely?

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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

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the yacht, sailing under the name Bayesian, sank after encountering a heavy storm overnight that caused waterspouts,

Well, given the chance that it either sinks or doesn’t sink in a storm, and that it either storms or doesn’t storm…

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Isn’t the chairman of Morgan Stanley missing too?

Edit: yep

Morgan Stanley International bank chairman Jonathan Bloomer and Clifford Chance lawyer Chris Morvillo are among the six people missing after a luxury yacht sank in a storm off Sicily on Monday, Sicily’s Civil Protection told the BBC.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5yl0q7e05lo

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