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Lynch family ‘devastated’ and being ‘comforted by friends’ after deadly superyacht sinking | World News

The Lynch family have said they are “devastated” and “in shock” but are being “comforted and supported by family and friends” after the Bayesian superyacht tragedy.

British tech tycoon Mike Lynch, 59, was confirmed dead by local authorities on Thursday after the Bayesian superyacht he was holidaying on sunk in the early hours of Monday.

Family release statement; superyacht sinking latest

Divers recovered the final missing body from the wreckage on Friday, which is believed to be that of his 18-year-old daughter Hannah. Her mother and Mr Lynch’s wife Angela Bacares survived the disaster.

A spokesperson for the family said in a statement on Friday: “The Lynch family is devastated, in shock and is being comforted and supported by family and friends.

“Their thoughts are with everyone affected by the tragedy. They would like to sincerely thank the Italian coastguard, emergency services and all those who helped in the rescue. Their one request now is that their privacy be respected at this time of unspeakable grief.”

Tributes have since poured in for both members of the family.

‘Lost one of our brightest stars’

Miss Lynch “lit up the classroom with her energy, passion for learning and sheer intelligence”, Jon Mitropoulos-Monk, head of English at Latymer Upper School in west London, said.

“I’ve never taught someone who combined sky-high intellectual ability with warmth and enthusiasm in the way Hannah did,” he said on Friday.

He said that when she was awarded her place to study at Oxford she sought out every member of staff to “thank them individually and give them a hug”.

Family friend Patrick Jacob said he has “never met anybody like Hannah”, describing her as “charming and ferociously intelligent with an insatiable thirst for life and knowledge”.

“We have lost one of our brightest stars whose future held so much promise. Her loss is unbearable.

Andrew Kanter, a close friend and former colleague of her father, described Mr Lynch as “the most brilliant mind and caring person I have ever known”.

“There is simply no other UK technology entrepreneur of our generation who has had such an impact on so many people,” he said.

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Hannah Lynch

Sushovan Hussain, a school friend and former colleague of Mr Lynch, also knew Morgan Stanley chairman Jonathan Bloom, his wife Judy, and Mr Lynch’s lawyer Chris Morvillo, who also died when the yacht sunk.

He said his death “leaves an unfillable hole in my life”, adding it is “tragic beyond words.

His wife Angela Bacares was rescued from the yacht and has another daughter Esme who was not on board.

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Mike Lynch’s neighbour: ‘Words fail me’

‘Fantastic neighbour’

Ruth Leigh lived next door to the couple in Suffolk for 15 years.

On Thursday, she described them as “fantastic neighbours” and said the tech tycoon “never played on his position” and was “very friendly and down-to-earth” despite his fortune.

“Even though they were wealthy and influential people there was never any airs and graces,” Ms Leigh told Sky News.

“He always went to the trouble of remembering your name, of asking after your partner or your children. From the very start they were fantastic neighbours – very friendly and down-to-earth.

“He’d come from a very ordinary background and through his own brains and intellect, he’d made a really great company and come up with some incredible ground-breaking tech. He was always very moral. He gave to charity very generously and never played on his position.”

She described his death so soon after the end of his legal troubles as “the saddest thing I’ve ever heard”.

“The whole point about this trip to Italy was taking his friends and family to say thank you. That’s what makes it even more tragic,” she added.

“Losing somebody so kind, compassionate, and full of integrity must leave a hole that cannot be filled.”

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Mr Lynch was extradited to the US and spent a year under house arrest in San Francisco before he was cleared of 15 charges of fraud earlier this summer by a jury.

Prosecutors claimed he deliberately overstated the value of Autonomy, the company he founded in 1996, when he sold it to Hewlett Packard in 2011. He always denied wrongdoing.

His former colleague has told Sky News he had a “brain the size of a planet” and was a “lovely man”.

‘Brain the size of a planet’

David Tabizel co-founded Autonomy with Mr Lynch and the pair remained good friends. He described him as a “remarkable individual” and the “brightest man I’ve met in my life”.

“He was a lovely man,” he told Sky News. “He had a remarkable set of personality traits that we rarely see in Britain.

“Before him there was no British tech scene. He showed us we can be world-class.”

Mr Tabizel told of Mr Lynch’s “inner child”, that he “loved video games”, had a life-size train set in his garden, and how they animated a cartoon dog for their office, for which they both recorded the “barking noises”.

Commenting on his legal struggles, Mr Tabizel said he “never heard him lie or exaggerate” and he was “interested in the truth… in cutting through the noise”.

“For him to be accused of manipulating his profits. It was an extraordinary thing. It just wasn’t Mike.

“I loved that man and he should be celebrated as a hero.”

David Yelland, Mr Lynch’s former PR adviser and former editor of The Sun newspaper, has paid tribute to him in a post on X.

He said: “All those that knew and loved Mike are thinking of Angela and their surviving daughter Esme as they struggle to come to terms with such unimaginable loss.

“We have lost a man who was failed in life by his country and his peers when he needed them most – as he looked for help in the unjust US demand that he be extradited – and he has then suffered the most unfair and brutal of fates.”

Mr Yelland said he had spoken to Mr Lynch just before he set sail on the yacht.

He also described him as a “dreamer of dreams not just for himself but for all those that knew him, worked with him or invested with him”.

The entrepreneur had “exciting plans to contribute much more to the country he loved,” he added.

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Bayesian superyacht. Pic: Danny Wheelz

Lord Browne, former chief executive of BP and now chairman of BeyondNetZero, said Mr Lynch was “the person who catalysed a breed of deep tech entrepreneurs in the UK”.

“His ideas and his personal vision were a powerful contribution to science and technology in both Britain and globally. We have lost a human being of great ability,” he wrote.

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Pictured in 2010. Pic: Shutterstock

‘Privileged to have known him’

Sky’s Ian King said he “feels very privileged to have known and spoken with Mike Lynch over many years”.

He described him as a “visionary and original thinker with a passion for building businesses”. “There are sadly too few like him in the UK,” he added.

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The Royal Academy of Engineering, where Mr Lynch was a former council member, donor, and mentor, said it is “deeply saddened to learn of the death of Mike Lynch”.

Sending condolences to his family, they added: “Mike became a fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2008 and we have fond memories of the active role he played in the past as a mentor, donor, and former council member. He was also one of the inaugural members on the enterprise committee.”

A spokesperson for technology industry group TechUK said: “Mike Lynch was a hugely significant and pioneering figure in the UK technology sector.

“Our hearts go out to all of the families and friends who have been impacted by these tragic events,” they said.

Jonathan Bloomer is the chairman of Morgan Stanley Pic: Hiscox/ Linkedin
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Jonathan Bloomer of Morgan Stanley. Pic: Hiscox/ Linkedin

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US lawyer Chris Morvillo. Pic: Clifford Chance

Mr Lynch’s Autonomy software was based on Bayesian statistical inference – where his family’s ill-fated yacht got its name.

The software’s global success earned him a reputation as the “British Bill Gates” and enabled companies to trawl through huge swathes of data more efficiently.

His Cambridge thesis is thought to be one of the most-read pieces of research in the institution’s library.

There was huge outcry from politicians and business leaders when Home Secretary Priti Patel approved a judge’s extradition order for him to be sent to the US for trial in 2023.

Search continues for British tech tycoon Mike Lynch and daughter after yacht sinks in Sicily tornado | UK News

British tech tycoon Mike Lynch and his 18-year-old daughter are among six tourists missing after a luxury yacht sank in a tornado off the coast of Italy.

One person has been confirmed dead – believed to be the vessel’s cook – while four of the missing passengers are British and two are American, according to Italian newspaper la Repubblica.

The British-flagged yacht, called Bayesian, had 10 crew and 12 passengers on board and sank at about 5am local time off the coast of Palermo.

Salvo Cocina of Sicily’s civil protection agency said: “They were in the wrong place at the wrong time.”

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Mr Lynch‘s daughter, Hannah Lynch, remains unaccounted for but his wife, Angela Bacares, was rescued along with 14 others – including a mother who held her one-year-old baby above the waves.

Charlotte Golunski, 35, told la Repubblica she lost her baby Sofia for “two seconds”, adding: “I held her afloat with all my strength, my arms stretched upwards to keep her from drowning.

“It was all dark. In the water I couldn’t keep my eyes open. I screamed for help but all I could hear around me was the screams of others.”

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The girl’s father James Emsley also survived, Mr Cocina said. According to her LinkedIn profile, Ms Golunski is a partner at Mr Lynch’s firm, called Invoke Capital.

Mr Lynch, described as the British Bill Gates, was cleared earlier this year of conducting a massive fraud over the sale of software company Autonomy to Hewlett-Packard (HP) in 2011.

His co-defendant in that trial, Stephen Chamberlain, was separately confirmed dead after he was hit by a car on Saturday.

Eyewitness: Dozens watch search teams as they work in the dark

It’s nearly midnight in Porticello – a quaint fishing village popular with tourists and Sicilian locals looking for a weekend away.

Here it is not unusual to see people including young children gathered on a small plinth overlooking the harbourside.

But tonight they’re not admiring the calm waters or the full moon above – instead their eyes are trained on the scene two giant floodlights illuminate.

Three fire and rescue trucks and a big white tent can be seen – the hub of the makeshift emergency rescue operation here.

About 100 metres from the tent is where a coastguard vessel with blue flashing lights circles the water with cave divers on board.

It’s combing the area where they know the yacht stood only hours ago. It’s careful work for the divers with only moonlight and the glow of the festoon lights on the harbour front aiding their work on the surface.

Back on the harbour and people in blue uniforms rush in and out of the white tent. Some of the 30 or so onlookers here tell us about last night’s storm.

They say it was relentless and unforgiving and describe the wind pounding at their hotel and apartment windows. One woman described it as “scary” inside her house, let alone on a lonely vessel moored off the coast.

They watch now as recovery efforts ramp up with extra teams coming ashore to aid the meticulous work – it’ll continue long into the night.

As the hours tick by without news, the more likely this turns into a recovery mission.

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Gary Lincenberg, his lawyer, said in a statement: “Our dear client and friend Steve Chamberlain was fatally struck by a car on Saturday while out running.

“He was a courageous man with unparalleled integrity. We deeply miss him.

“Steve fought successfully to clear his good name at trial earlier this year, and his good name now lives on through his wonderful family.”

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Rescue mission ‘ramped up’

The UK Marine Accident Investigation Branch said four of its inspectors are being deployed to Palermo for a preliminary assessment, while cave divers have joined the ongoing search.

The hull of the ship is resting at a depth of 50 metres.

A spokesman for the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) said: “We are in contact with the local authorities following an incident in Sicily, and stand ready to provide consular support to British nationals affected.”

Train strike action ‘solid’ and will continue until government ‘unblocks’ pay dispute, says RMT union boss Mick Lynch | UK News

Striking rail workers have vowed to continue walking out until the government “unblocks” their pay dispute on the second day in a row of cancellations.

There are 14 rail operators affected by strike action by the RMT union on Saturday – the day of the Eurovision finale in Liverpool – after a separate walkout by train drivers from ASLEF on Friday.

Both strikes have caused widespread cancellations and show no signs of stopping after the RMT rejected a 9% pay increase.

Southeastern trains in sidings at Ramsgate station in Kent, as services are disrupted due to members of the Rail, Maritime and Transport union (RMT) taking strike action in a long-running dispute over jobs and pensions. Picture date: Thursday March 16, 2023.

ASLEF, which was offered an 8% increase over two years, has strikes planned until 3 June – the day of the FA Cup Final.

After rejecting the most recent offer, RMT general secretary Mick Lynch called for a special summit of unions, train operators and the government in a letter to Transport Secretary Mark Harper.

He told Sky News rail bosses want unions to call off any remaining strikes before negotiating any further – but their industrial action is “solid” and “will be as long as this campaign goes on”.

“What they want us to do is call off the dispute and then go into another set of negotiations without the leverage on the table – and we simply can’t do that,” he said on Saturday. “You don’t disarm yourself half-way through a campaign.

Members of the drivers' union Aslef on the picket line at Euston station, London, during their long-running dispute over pay. Picture date: Friday May 12, 2023.
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Striking ASLEF train drivers on Friday

“It’s up to the government to unblock this dispute because they are the ones who have the final say on what is proposed at the table.

“In their contracts with these companies they stipulate what the negotiating position is and what the offers are.”

RMT general secretary Mick Lynch (centre) and striking rail workers at London Euston
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Mick Lynch (centre) said industrial action, as things stood, remained ‘solid’

Union did not put latest offer to its members

Paul Gentleman, spokesperson for Great Western Railway, whose members are on strike today, said he knows of RMT members happy with the latest offer – but the RMT has not given members a chance to vote on it.

Describing it as “disappointing” and the dispute as “toxic”, he told Sky News a separate summit is unnecessary as “existing methods” could “provide the solution”.

Labour’s shadow employment secretary Alison McGovern added that constant train strikes are hindering the UK’s economic recovery.

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But Mr Lynch said the union did not put the offer out for ballot because it did not keep up with the cost of living crisis and inflationary pressures.

“It’s not acceptable. It doesn’t meet the demands in the dispute,” he said.

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Rail strikes ‘need to end’

It comes after the government was forced to bring the operator TransPennine Express under its control following a year of widespread delays and cancellations.

TransPennine, which was also on strike on Saturday – and covers the north of England and a small part of Scotland, has been badly affected by ASLEF driver strikes.

Mr Harper said his department had “played our part but ASLEF now need to play theirs” by calling off further strikes.

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Merseyrail, which runs the trains out of Liverpool, was not on strike on Saturday, with Eurovision organisers insisting travel to the city for the final would not be disrupted.

But those not already in Liverpool for the final will be unable to get there if they were relying on connecting services run by: Avanti West Coast; c2c; Chiltern Railways; CrossCountry; East Midlands Railway; Gatwick Express; Great Northern; Great Western Railway; Greater Anglia; Heathrow Express; Island Line; LNER; London Northwestern Railway; Southeastern; Southern; Stansted Express; Thameslink; TransPennine Express; or West Midlands Railway.

‘I’m not the Grinch’: RMT union boss Mick Lynch defends new Christmas and New Year strikes | UK News

The boss of the rail workers’ union has insisted he’s “not the Grinch” as he announced four 48-hour strikes over the Christmas and New Year period.

RMT General Secretary Mick Lynch said there had been no improved offer on jobs, pay and conditions, so more walkouts would go ahead.

About 40,000 staff from Network Rail and 14 train companies are set to strike.

The dates are: 13 and 14 December; 16 and 17 December; 3 and 4 January; 6 and 7 January.

It means disruption for travellers, workers, and shoppers in the run-up to Christmas – and for people returning home after the festive break.

There could also be problems on other days because the RMT said on overtime ban would run from 18 December to 2 January.

Mr Lynch told reporters he wasn’t trying to emulate the mean-tempered children’s character who famously “stole Christmas”.

“I’m not the Grinch, I’m a trade union official, and I’m determined to get a deal,” he said.

He accused the government of “directly interfering” in negotiations and said the last two weeks of talks with Network Rail had not achieved a breakthrough.

The Christmas action will be the latest in a series of rail strikes that began in June and follows RMT members last week voting to continue striking for another six months.

Train drivers who belong to the Aslef union are staging a separate strike this Saturday, hitting services run by 11 operators, including Great Western and Southeastern.

Strikes planned for the start of November were previously cancelled by the RMT after it said it would enter a fortnight of “intensive negotiations”.

But Mr Lynch said on Tuesday that a commitment from train companies to table a written offer at the end of those talks had not materialised.

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Many travellers are set to face a travel headache if the new strikes can’t be averted

Reacting to the new strikes, Network Rail’s chief negotiator stressed there was a “precarious financial hole” in the industry, which striking only made worse.

“Only through reform, that will not result in anyone losing their job, can savings be made that can then be converted into an improved offer,” said Tim Shoveller.

“And while progress has been made over these last two weeks, we still have yet to find that breakthrough.

“We will not give-up and hope that the RMT will return to the table next week with a more realistic appreciation of the situation.”

The prime minister’s spokesman said the strikes risked “putting the future of the rail industry in jeopardy”, and called on the union to “come to an agreement that is fair to passengers, taxpayers, and workers”.

The Rail Delivery Group, which represents train companies, said “the outline of a credible deal” had emerged in the latest talks.

However, it said the walkouts would disrupt people’s first “normal” festive season post-COVID and damage hospitality and retail businesses.

The rail strikes are perhaps the most high profile among a wave of recent industrial action. Other sectors taking or considering strikes include postal workers, nurses and civil servants.