2024-08-21 15:35:28
CTK
Updated 10 minutes ago
Rescuers off the coast of Italian Sicily on Wednesday picked up the bodies of British billionaire Mike Lynch and his 18-year-old daughter from the wreck of a luxury yacht that sank there early Monday morning. This was reported by the British newspaper Daily Telegraph with reference to the head of the Sicilian civil protection.
There were 22 people on board the yacht at the time of the accident, of which 15 were saved. Among the missing is the manager of the American bank Morgan Stanley International, Jonathan Bloomer. According to the BBC, the yacht belonged to Lynch’s wife, Angela Bacaros, who was rescued. The search for the other four missing persons continues.
The British-flagged yacht Bayesian was moored off the town of Porticello near Palermo at the time of the accident. There were ten crew members and twelve guests on the 56 meter long sailboat. The yacht was swept away by a strong water storm shortly before five o’clock in the morning on Monday.
Prosecutors from the city of Termini Imerese, who are investigating the shipwreck, questioned 51-year-old James Catfield for more than two hours on Tuesday evening, who was the captain of the sailboat Bayesian, writes the website of the Italian television station RAI. Prosecutors interviewed him along with other survivors to reconstruct the course of the sinking and obtain technical details useful for the investigation. The hearings continue on Wednesday and the judges will hear from all the survivors.
The father of one of the survivors, according to the BBC, said his daughter was invited along with others to the yacht to celebrate Mike Lynch’s win in court. A British businessman has faced fraud charges over the sale of Autonomy to Hewlett-Packard and could face prison. He was acquitted in June.
The mother of the surviving one-year-old girl, according to Italian media, said that Mike Lynch was happy that he organized the cruise.
Other missing passengers still being searched for are Bloomer’s wife Anne Elizabeth Judith Bloomer, Lynch’s lawyer Chris Morvillo and his wife Nada Morvillo, according to ANSA.
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