21 August 2024 , 17:20
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Four bodies found in the wreck of Mike Lynch’s superyacht have now been brought to shore - two of which were confirmed as the tech mogul and his teenage daughter Hannah.
Search teams made the tragic discovery this afternoon while scouring through the wreckage of the Bayesian, which sank off the coast of Sicily after being hit by a ’black swan’ waterspout on Monday morning.
The Chief of Civil Protection later confirmed two bodies had been identified as Mr Lynch and his daughter, before announcing that two more bodies were found and have now been recovered by divers.
The bodies were lifted onto shore and taken into a tent, before being transferred into a waiting ambulance.
Those still unaccounted for are Morgan Stanley boss Jonathan Bloomer, his wife Judy and US citizens Chris Morvillo and his jewellery designer wife Neda Morvillo. The body of one crew member, chef Recaldo Thomas, was found on Monday.
The freak incident came as 59-year-old Mr Lynch, known as ’Britain’s Bill Gates’, was enjoying a ’victory trip’ to celebrate winning his US fraud trial over the £8.3billion sale of his tech 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 sinking, with specialist divers desperately trying to access the boat amid hope survivors could be alive in air pockets inside the vessel.