'And they all lived happily ever after': Missing lawyer's haunting praise for team that got Mike Lynch acquitted weeks before vanishing with five others in superyacht tragedy By Matt Strudwick Published: 11:59, 20 August 2024 | Updated: 12:03, 20 August 2024 e-mail View comments Mike Lynch's lawyer posted a haunting final LinkedIn post just two months before he and his wife went missing when the British tech tycoon's superyacht sank off the coast of Sicily. Chris Morvillo was glowing in his remarks as he praised his colleagues for getting Mr Lynch acquitted in one of the biggest ever fraud cases. It was his only post on the platform just months before he and his wife Neda went missing while on the billionaire's £30 million superyacht Bayesian after it sank in a freak storm.
They are two of six missing passengers feared dead alongside Mr Lynch, 59, his 18-year-old daughter Hannah, Morgan Stanley International bank chairman Jonathan Bloomer and his wife Judy. Mr Morvillo, a partner at Clifford Chance, was full of cheer in his 495-word LinkedIn message after Lynch and his colleague Stephen Chamberlain were acquitted in one of the biggest ever fraud cases. He praised the 'superstar lawyers' for making 'this gargantuan task seem manageable even in the darkest hours', and thanked his 'patient and incredible wife' and two daughters for their love and support.
He then hauntingly signed off the post: 'And they all lived happily ever after.' Mike Lynch's lawyer Chris Morvillo (pictured) posted a haunting final LinkedIn post just two months before he and his wife went missing when the British tech tycoon's superyacht sank off the coast of Sicily Morvillo was glowing in his remarks in his only LinkedIn post as he praised his colleagues for getting Mr Lynch acquitted in one of the biggest ever fraud cases It was his only post on the platform just two months before he and his wife Neda went missing while on the billionaire's £30 million superyacht Bayesian (pictured) after it sank in a freak storm Mr Morvillo wrote: 'And, finally, a huge thank you to my patient and incredible wife, Neda Morvillo, and my two strong, brilliant, and beautiful daughters, Sabrina Morvillo and Sophia Morvillo. None of this would have been possible without your love and support.
I am so glad to be home.' Read More How missing billionaire Mike Lynch was victorious in one of biggest-ever fraud trials Mr Lynch, dubbed 'Britain's Bill Gates', placed his head in his hands and was embraced by his wife, Angela Bacares, when he was cleared of conducting a massive fraud relating to a £8.64 billion sale of his firm, Autonomy, to US company Hewlett-Packard in 2011 .
The three month trial on the 17th floor of San Francisco's federal courthouse brought an end to a 13-year legal saga that had been hanging over the entrepreneur's head. It was an unexpected 'second life' he was going to grab with both hands. He had invited family and friends onto the yacht to celebrate after being acquitted of all charges in a US fraud trial, and in an extraordinary twist his co-defendant Chamberlain has also died after being hit by a car while running in England over the weekend.
That 'second life' appears to have ended in tragedy when the luxury yacht capsized early on Monday morning after being hit by a waterspout at around 5am. The captain of the doomed vessel said 'we didn't see it coming' after he and 15 others were rescued from the water. Tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch, who was often referred to as the 'British Bill Gates', was on holiday with family when tragedy struck and 'freak' waterspout took down his luxury boat Mr Lynch is still missing.
His wife Angela Bacares (right) was among the 15 people who were rescued from the yacht In a cruel twist in the yacht tragedy, it was revealed last night that Mr Lynch's ex colleague and co-defendant in his US fraud trial, Stephen Chamberlain (pictured), has died in hospital after being hit by a car on Saturday Emergency services including police and paramedics stand on the pier at Porticello as the search operation continues this morning A life raft is seen docked at the harbour near the port where the emergency and rescue workers are launching their search operation Your browser does not support iframes. Your browser does not support iframes. A fire service helicopter stands close to the harbour in Porticello this morning as specialist divers from the emergency service take over search operations The ship's chef Ricardo Thomas was found dead in the sea by search teams yesterday and hopes that survivors will be found alive in trapped air pockets are rapidly fading as the rescue operation continues.
Specialist divers involved in the search operation say the vessel has come to rest on the seabed 164ft (50 metres) below the surface with 'virtually everything intact', with furniture blocking attempts to get inside. Those involved in the rescue efforts have compared the incident to the 'Costa Concordia disaster on a smaller scale', adding that they would do 'everything to recover the bodies' amid worsening weather conditions. Tornado-speed winds flipped the superyacht so quickly there was no time for those on board to raise the alarm or call for help before they were left swimming for their lives, with those who made it off stranded in the pitch black water as the storm raged around them.
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