Mike Lynch: British entrepreneur missing after Bayesian yacht sinks off Sicilian coast
British tech billionaire Mike Lynch is missing off Sicily's coast after a yacht sank, Sky News understands.
One person is dead and six others are missing after a UK-flagged superyacht named Bayesian sank off the coast of Sicily in a storm.
Sky News also understands the yacht is owned by the family of Dr Lynch.
It comes just weeks after Dr Lynch, 59, was cleared of all charges by a US jury in the high-profile fraud case related to the sale of his software company Autonomy to Hewlett-Packard (HP) in 2011.
Politicians and business leaders alike protested vehemently at his extradition to the US to face charges arguing that, if there was a case to be heard, it should be heard in the UK as Autonomy was a UK-listed, UK-regulated and UK-audited company.
Who is Mike Lynch?
Ilford-born Dr Lynch had a firefighter father from County Cork and a mother who was a nurse from County Tipperary in Ireland.
In 2023, the Sunday Times rich list valued him and his wife Angela Bacares, 57, at £852m.
-SKY NEWS
