Italian prosecutors will investigate the Bayesian’s captain after the superyacht sank in Sicily last week killing seven people. James Cutfield, a 51-year old New Zealand national, is being investigated for manslaughter and shipwreck, the dailies La Repubblica and Corriere della Sera said. British tech billionaire Mike Lynch was killed alongside six others, including his 18-year-old daughter Hannah.
Other passengers whose bodies were recovered include Morgan Stanley International bank chairman Jonathan Bloomer and Mr Lynch’s lawyer Chris Morvillo. Magistrates spoke to Cutfield on Sunday for the second time in a week questioning him for more than two hours. Prosecutors may also investigate a crew member who was on duty when the storm hit and survived the incident.
The British-flagged Bayesian, a 56-metre-long (184-foot) superyacht, was carrying 22 people when it capsized and sank on Monday within minutes of being hit by a pre-dawn storm while anchored off northern Sicily. To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a webbrowser that supports HTML5video Fifteen people survived, including Lynch’s wife, whose company owned the Bayesian. While the yacht had been hit by a sudden meteorological event, it was plausible that crimes of multiple manslaughter and causing a shipwreck through negligence had been committed, the head of the public prosecutor’s office of Termini Imerese, Ambrogio Cartosio, said on Saturday.
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