Stephen Chamberlain, who was Mike Lynch's co-defendant in a recent US fraud trial died a few days before Mr Lynch went missing from a superyacht off the coast of Sicily. The former vice president of the finance company Autonomy was hit by a car while out running in Cambridgeshire on Saturday morning (August 17), his lawyer said. Mr Chamberlain had faced the same charges of fraud and conspiracy as his former boss.
This was for allegedly scheming to inflate the value of Autonomy, then Britain's largest software firm, before it was sold to Hewlett-Packard (HP) in 2011, Sky News reports . Mike Lynch’s co-defendant in US fraud trial ‘fatally struck’ by car while jogging | Guardian https://t.co/2wD8F6bZ0W Stephen Chamberlain was VP of finance for Autonomy, the firm co-founded by British tech tycoon missing in Sicily pic.
twitter.com/iENKORo1PI — Venik (@venik44) August 20, 2024 The pair were acquitted of all 15 charges by a jury in San Francisco in June. At the weekend Cambridgeshire police had appealed for witnesses and information after a man in his 50s was taken to hospital with serious injuries.
In a statement on Monday (August 19), Mr Chamberlain's lawyer, Gary Lincenberg, who described him as a "dear client and friend", said he had died after being "fatally struck" by a car while out running in Stretham. This news came just before Mr Lynch and his daughter Hannah were discovered to be missing after a superyacht sank off the coast of Sicily on Monday. British tech tycoo.