The search for tech tycoon Mike Lynch and his 18-year-old daughter will resume on Tuesday after a luxury yacht sank off the coast in Sicily in Italy. Mr Lynch and his daughter Hannah are among six missing after the Bayesian yacht was struck by a tornado and sank in the early hours of Monday morning . They were on a trip to celebrate his acquittal in a fraud trial.
Morgan Stanley International bank chairman Jonathan Bloomer, who supported Mr Lynch as a witness for the defence, and lawyer Christopher Morvillo, are among those still missing. At least one person is dead with fifteen on board having been rescued. Follow the latest updates in i ‘s live blog.
The UK Foreign Office said it is supporting a number of British nationals and their families following an incident in Sicily. Britain’s Marine Accident Investigation Branch is also sending a team of inspectors to conduct a “preliminary assessment” into the sinking of the UK registered-boat. Charlotte Golunski, a partner at Lynch’s venture firm Invoke Capital, told of the aftermath of the disaster.
She told La Repubblica that she held her one-year-old daughter, Sofia, to stop her from drowning. She said: “I held her afloat with all my strength, my arms stretched upwards to keep her from drowning. “It was all dark.
In the water I couldn’t keep my eyes open. I screamed for help but all I could hear around me was the screams of others.” Giuseppe D’Agostino, mayor of Santa Flavia, a village on the coast close to .