'And they all lived happily ever after': Missing lawyer's haunting praise for team that got Mike Lynch acquitted weeks before vanishing with five others in superyacht tragedy By Matt Strudwick Published: 11:59, 20 August 2024 | Updated: 12:03, 20 August 2024 e-mail View comments Mike Lynch's lawyer posted a haunting final LinkedIn post just two months before he and his wife went missing when the British tech tycoon's superyacht sank off the coast of Sicily. Chris Morvillo was glowing in his remarks as he praised his colleagues for getting Mr Lynch acquitted in one of the biggest ever fraud cases. It was his only post on the platform just months before he and his wife Neda went missing while on the billionaire's £30 million superyacht Bayesian after it sank in a freak storm.
They are two of six missing passengers feared dead alongside Mr Lynch, 59, his 18-year-old daughter Hannah, Morgan Stanley International bank chairman Jonathan Bloomer and his wife Judy. Mr Morvillo, a partner at Clifford Chance, was full of cheer in his 495-word LinkedIn message after Lynch and his colleague Stephen Chamberlain were acquitted in one of the biggest ever fraud cases. He praised the 'superstar lawyers' for making 'this gargantuan task seem manageable even in the darkest hours', and thanked his 'patient and incredible wife' and two daughters for their love and support.
He then hauntingly signed off the post: 'And they all lived happily ever after.' Mike Lynch's lawyer Chris Morvillo (picture.