Tech tycoon Mike Lynch and six other people were killed when the family yacht sank in stormy weather on August 19th
Hannah and Mike Lynch died after the yacht Bayesian sank around half a mile off the coast of Porticello, Sicily. Photograph: Family Handout/PA Wire’s family yacht sank off Sicily last month indicated they had died of suffocation as oxygen ran out on the stricken vessel, judicial sources said on Thursday.
First results from autopsies on four of the victims – Morgan Stanley International chairman Jonathan Bloomer, his wife Judy, lawyer Chris Morvillo and his wife Neda – suggested they died from suffocation, having been trapped on the ship. ‘Inadequate’: One-word school ratings abolished in England after tragedy involving distraught headteacher
The bodies of the dead, except for the cook, were found in the cabins on the left-hand side of the boat, where the passengers may have tried to search for remaining bubbles of air, the head of Palermo's Fire Brigade said last month.
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