THE SEARCH FOR British technology tycoon Mike Lynch and his daughter will resume today after a luxury yacht sank in a tornado off the coast of Sicily. The pair are among six tourists missing after the yacht, named Bayesian, was battered during intense storms off the coast of Palermo in the early hours of Monday. The BBC, which reported searches are due to resume later on Tuesday morning, said Morgan Stanley International Bank chairman Jonathan Bloomer and Clifford Chance lawyer Chris Morvillo were among those missing.
Italy’s fire brigade Vigili del Fuoco said on X that early inspections of the wreck were “unsuccessful” due to limited access to the bridge and furniture obstructing passages. A body, believed to be that of the vessel’s cook, has been discovered. Four of the missing passengers are British and two are American, Italian news website la Repubblica stated.
Lynch, who founded software giant Autonomy in 1996, was made an OBE for services to enterprise in 2006. In June, he was cleared of conducting a massive fraud relating to an 11 billion dollar (£8.64 billion) sale to US company Hewlett Packard.
Ayla Reynold, a New Zealand national working at Clifford Chance, survived the ordeal. Her father Lin Ronald confirmed to the Telegraph she had been invited aboard as thanks for assistance in Lynch’s recent court case. “I have texted my daughter and she hasn’t given me any updates about missing personnel or saved personnel.
She has only said that there are death.