Family friends pay new tributes to 'diamond in a sea of stars' Hannah Lynch, 18, after Bayesian superyacht tragedy in which she died with her 'Britain's Bill Gates' tech tycoon father Mike Lynch By Freya Barnes Published: 20:05, 24 August 2024 | Updated: 20:37, 24 August 2024 e-mail View comments Family friends of Mike and Hannah Lynch have said the father and daughter were part of a 'united, vibrant, loving family' - with the teenager remembered as a 'diamond in a sea of stars' and the tech mogul as a brilliant storyteller. The pair were among seven people who died after the luxury superyacht Bayesian sank off the coast of Sicily early on Monday morning. Mr Lynch was the creator of software giant Autonomy and had been cleared in June of carrying out a massive fraud related to its 11 billion dollar (£8.
64 billion) sale to US company Hewlett Packard. His daughter Hannah had recently finished her A-levels and was due to study at Oxford University . The 18-year-old's body was found alone in her own cabin on board the super-yacht after it sank 50 metres below the surface of the Mediterranean, rescue workers have said.
Five others, including her father, were found in a separate compartment on the Bayesian superyacht, fire service commander Girolamo Bentivoglio Fiandra told reporters at a conference in Termini Imerese, close to the sinking site off Sicily. Tributes have been paid to 18-year-old Hannah Lynch describing her as a 'diamond in a sea of stars' following her death after .