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Autopsies have been carried out on two victims who drowned when the super yacht Bayesian sank last month in a freak storm with the loss of seven lives. Mr Lynch's wife Angela Bacares, Hannah's mother, survived along with 14 others after the £30 million vessel sank off the coast of the Italian island of Sicily at Porticello near Palermo on …
PORTICELLO, Italy—The sun set over a calm Mediterranean Sea as the Bayesian approached this small fishing town on the north coast of Sicily. From the yacht, Chris Morvillo, a former U.S. prosecutor who had helped lead Lynch’s defense for more than a decade, emailed Heberlig and other legal colleagues to share the tragic news. The bodies of five other passengers …
PORTICELLO, Sicily — British tech magnate Mike Lynch and five other people were missing after their luxury superyacht sank during a freak storm off Sicily early Monday, Italy’s civil protection and authorities said. Lynch, who was acquitted in June in a big U.S. fraud trial, was among six people who remain unaccounted for after their chartered sailboat sank off Porticello, …