An investigation opened for involuntary manslaughter, announces the prosecution

Italian firefighters on Friday found the body of the daughter of British tech tycoon Mike Lynch, the last person missing from the yacht sinking in Sicily on Monday, which left seven people dead in total, including the billionaire.

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Divers leave the port of Porticello near Palermo, Sicily, on August 23, 2024, four days after the luxury yacht sank "Bayesian". (ALBERTO PIZZOLI / AFP)

Sicilian prosecutors announced on Saturday 24 August that they had opened an investigation into involuntary manslaughter through negligence following the sinking of a yacht that left seven dead near Palermo, while stressing that the investigations were only in their early stages.“We are not ruling anything out”prosecutor Ambrogio Cartosio said at a press conference after the luxury sailboat “Bayesian” sank in a storm at dawn on Monday.

Italian firefighters on Friday found the body of the daughter of British tech tycoon Mike Lynch, the last person missing from the yacht sinking in Sicily on Monday, which left seven people dead in total, including the billionaire. After the discovery of the first body on Monday, that of the ship’s cook, six people were missing following the sinking of the “Bayesian” at dawn Monday off Porticello, near Palermo, in a violent tornado.

The body of Mike Lynch, 59, was recovered Thursday. The wealthy businessman, nicknamed the “British Bill Gates,” was celebrating with friends, colleagues and lawyers his acquittal in June in a fraud trial in the United States that could have cost him years in prison.

Her daughter Hannah, 18, a staunch feminist according to her friends, had just passed her final exams and won a place to study English literature at Oxford University, British media reported.


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