Along with Lynch and his 18-year-old daughter, four of his high-powered City guests are also still missing and presumed dead. On board the yacht the Bayesian with Lynch and his family – his wife Angela Bacares has been rescued – were Jonathan Bloomer, chairman of Morgan Stanley International and his wife, and Christopher Morvillo, a lawyer at Clifford Chance, and his wife, Nada. Both Bloomer and Morvillo were closely involved in Lynch's fraud case.
They were on the Bayesian as thanks for their help during his three-month trial after he was cleared of fraud charges after US giant Hewlett Packard bought the FTSE 100-listed Autonomy, his data analysis firm, for $11billion. Tragedy: Autonomy founder Mike Lynch (pictured) is missing after his superyacht was hit by a freak storm off the coast of Sicily Bloomer, a former Hiscox chairman and Prudential chief, gave evidence during the San Francisco trial as he had led the audit committee at Autonomy while Morvillo represented him. Yet there is another peculiar twist of fate to this tale of horror which tests the realms of probability.
Only two days before the Bayesian sank off the coast of Sicily on Monday, Stephen Chamberlain, the former vice-president of finance at Autonomy and co-defendant in the fraud case, was hit by a car while jogging near his home in Cambridgeshire. Chamberlain, who also worked at..
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