August 19 14 million The £500,000 ship was caught in a storm off the northern coast of Sicily, capsized and sank to the seabed within minutes.
Autopsies were carried out on Jonathan Bloomer, his wife Judy, Chris Morvill and his wife Neda, four of the seven people who died in the yacht’s sinking.
Also killed were British billionaire Mike Lynch and his daughter Hannah, and yacht chef Recaldo Thomas, whose autopsies will be carried out tomorrow.
As reported by Italian newspaper La Repubblica, autopsy reports suggest that both couples died in an air bubble below deck from lack of oxygen.
Earlier reports suggested that Chris and Neda, whose autopsies were performed first, had drowned.
Divers found five missing passengers in one cabin on the port side of the yacht, which landed on its starboard side on the seabed. A judicial investigation into the yacht tragedy is currently underway.
Investigating a murder
Of the 22 people on board, 15 survived, 11 including Mike Lynch’s wife on an inflatable life raft.
James Cutfield, the 51-year-old captain of the Bayesian, is being investigated for involuntary manslaughter.
Italian authorities are investigating the culpability of Kiwi Cutfield and two other crew members in the ship’s sinking and manslaughter.
Prosecutors are also investigating the ship’s engineer Tim Parker-Eaton and 22-year-old sailor Matthew Griffith on the same charges.
The investigation does not mean that any of the men are guilty or that they will face formal charges.
At a press conference at the Termini Imerese courthouse on Saturday, chief prosecutor Ambrogio Cartosio said the men could have engaged in “behavior that was not entirely orderly, given the responsibility everyone had” during the tragedy.
His team will investigate whether hatches on the yacht were left open, which would have allowed water to enter the vessel. They will also investigate whether the crew raised the alarm before escaping.
A. Cartosio promised “to find out how much they knew and how much all the passengers were warned.”
“There may actually be a question of murder. However, this is the beginning of the investigation, we cannot rule anything out… We will determine the responsibility of each element (crew – ed.),” he explained.
“To me personally, it seems likely that crimes have been committed – that this could be a case of murder,” he added.
Survivors of the crash, including Mr Lynch’s 57-year-old wife Angela Bacares, left Sicily on a private plane last Sunday.
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