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UK tech tycoon Mike Lynch among missing after luxury yacht sinks (www.bbc.com)

submitted 2 months ago by Tudou@feddit.uk to c/unitedkingdom@feddit.uk

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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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[–] feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] smileygav@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 months ago (3 children)

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

[–] nickb333@fedia.io 3 points 2 months ago

Not guilty, m'lud.

[–] Mrkawfee@feddit.uk 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You mean not guilty surely?

[–] smileygav@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 months ago

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

[–] feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Crazy bad luck.