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The body of UK tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch has been recovered from the wreckage of the superyacht Bayesian, three days after it sank off the coast of Sicily, according to Italian officials.
Six people including Lynch and his 18-year-old daughter Hannah have been missing since Monday, when Bayesian went down in an intense storm near Palermo.
A fifth body was pulled from the sunken yacht on Thursday morning. Divers searching the wreck off the coast of Porticello are currently trying to find the sixth.
No formal identification of the bodies has been announced by the Italian authorities.
A spokesperson for Lynch’s family declined to comment.
The trip on Bayesian had been planned as a celebration of Lynch’s recent acquittal on US fraud charges, after a 12-year legal battle over the $11bn sale of his software group Autonomy to Hewlett-Packard.
Among the missing are Christopher Morvillo of law firm Clifford Chance, who represented Lynch, and Jonathan Bloomer, chair of insurance group Hiscox and Morgan Stanley International, who appeared at the trial as a witness for the defence.
The men’s wives, Neda Morvillo and Judy Bloomer, also joined the trip and are also missing.
Lynch’s wife, Angela Bacares, was one of 15 people rescued in the early hours of Monday morning. The body of one crew member was also recovered on Monday.
Italian prosecutors are investigating the exact circumstances of the shipwreck after some eyewitnesses claimed the yacht sank in just a matter of minutes.
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