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5 bodies found in same cabin of Mike Lynch’s superyacht: investigators
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5 bodies found in same cabin of Mike Lynch’s superyacht: investigators

Bentivoglio Fiandra of the local fire brigade said at a press conference on Saturday morning: “The yacht was leaning to the right and the bodies apparently tried to go to the other side and take refuge in their cabins.”

“We found five bodies in a cabin on the left side and another in the third cabin on the left side. They were in the higher part of the shipwreck,” he added, according to The Telegraph.

According to the Public Prosecution Service, they started an investigation into manslaughter after the sinking.

Ambrogio Cartosio, head of the Termini Imerese Public Prosecutor’s Office, said he was investigating a “criminal hypothesis” of guilt for shipwreck and manslaughter.

The Bayesian, a 184-foot superyacht, sank off the coast of Porticello, Sicily on August 19.

Mike Lynch, the founder of Autonomy, and his 18-year-old daughter Hannah are among the seven people killed in the incident.

Lynch was on the yacht with friends and family to celebrate his recent acquittal in a fraud case.

In June, he won the 12-year legal battle over his technology company.

Stephen Chamberlain, former vice president of finance at Autonomy and a suspect in the fraud case, died in a separate incident, just days before the Bayesian rate fell.

Jonathan Bloomer, chairman of Morgan Stanley International, and his wife Judy also died after the yacht sank.

A second couple, Christopher and Neda Morvillo, also perished in the sinking. Christopher Morvillo was a partner at Clifford Chance and served as Lynch’s attorney.

A cook on the yacht, Recaldo Thomas, was the only crew member killed in the incident.