Family friends said the tech businessman was a fascinating story teller while his teenage daughter Hannah had an Irish and Linto fire from her parents. Get the latest Scottish crime and courts news sent straight to your inbox with our daily Criminal Record newsletter We have more newsletters Get the latest Scottish crime and courts news sent straight to your inbox with our daily Criminal Record newsletter We have more newsletters 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 Autonom 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.
Sasha Murray, chief stewardess of the Bayesian, said: "Those who knew her will know that Hannah was a diamond in a sea of stars. Bright, beautiful and always shining. "What most people may not have seen was the extraordinarily strong, deep and loving relationship she shared with her parents, whom she adored more than anything.
"While swimming with them she often said, if anything ever happened she woul.