British tech tycoon Mike Lynch drowned after his luxury superyacht sank off the coast in Sicily , while the cause of death of his daughter and two other friends remains under investigation. A series of inquest openings at Suffolk Coroners Court heard Hannah Lynch, 18, Morgan Stanley International bank chairman Jonathan Bloomer, 70, and his wife Judy Bloomer, 71, had all died on the stricken vessel with a cause of death not yet provided. Detective superintendent Mike Brown of Suffolk Police said their deaths came after the yacht Bayesian “for reasons yet to be unascertained, sank rapidly” between 4.
15am and 4.45am on 19 August. He said: “Of the total occupants, 15 were rescued while seven were reported missing.
The search began in the following hours and continued uninterruptedly for the following days.” He added the boat was located 0.8 nautical miles from the port town of Porticello, and was waving a British flag when it rapidly sank during a freak storm.
The officer said the time of death for all four was recorded as 5am, with the Bloomers recovered by search teams on 21 August, Dr Lynch the next day and Ms Lynch brought ashore on 23 August. The four inquests were separately opened and adjourned in Ipswich on Friday, until a hearing on 15 April next year. Mr Brown said Dr Lynch’s provisional medical cause of death was recorded as drowning following a post-mortem examination by Professor Antonia D’Argo.
He said that the medical cause of death remained under inves.
