Five corpses found in the wreck of Mike Lynch’s superyacht have been brought to shore—two of which were confirmed as the tech billionaire’s and his teenage daughter Hannah.
A fifth person was discovered in the Bayesian wreckage but has yet to be retrieved, according to reports this evening, leaving one body missing.
Search workers made the heartbreaking finds today while sifting through the debris of the luxury sailboat, which sank off the coast of Sicily after being hit by a ‘black swan’ waterspout early Monday.
The Chief of Civil Protection announced that two bodies had been identified as British software billionaire Mr. Lynch and his 18-year-old daughter.
Two men and one woman were transferred to the mortuary to be legally identified, while the gender of the other two remains unknown.
Morgan Stanley CEO Jonathan Bloomer and his wife Judy, as well as US residents Chris Morvillo and his jewellery designer wife Neda Morvillo, remain missing.
The body of one crew member, chef Recaldo Thomas, was discovered on Monday.
The odd incident occurred when 59-year-old Mr. Lynch, nicknamed ‘Britain’s Bill Gates’, was enjoying a ‘victory vacation’ to celebrate winning his US fraud trial over the £8.3 billion sale of his computer firm Autonomy to Hewlett-Packard.
In a separate tragedy, Stephen Chamberlain, the former vice president of finance at Autonomy and Mr. Lynch’s co-defendant, died after being hit by a car while out jogging in Cambridgeshire on Saturday.
Four other guests have been missing since the wreck, with specialist divers desperately trying to access the boat in the hope of finding survivors in air pockets inside.
