Inquest into death of tech tycoon Mike Lynch in yacht sinking will take 'many months', court hears

Reuters - 15/04
The investigation into the deaths of British tech tycoon Mike Lynch, banker Jonathan Bloomer and members of their families who perished when a luxury yacht sank last year will take many months, a British inquest was told on Tuesday.
LONDON, April 15 (Reuters) - The investigation into the deaths of British tech tycoon Mike Lynch, banker Jonathan Bloomer and members of their families who perished when a luxury yacht sank last year will take many months, a British inquest was told on Tuesday.
Lynch, his 18-year-old daughter Hannah and Morgan Stanley International chairman Bloomer and his wife Judith died when the superyacht "Bayesian" sank during a severe and sudden storm off the port of Porticello, near Palermo in Sicily on August 19, 2024. Two other guests and the ship's cook also perished.

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The ship, owned by the Lynch family, is still on the seabed, but British investigators said they expected it to be raised and brought to shore next month.
Lynch built Britain's biggest software company, Autonomy, and sold it to Hewlett-Packard for $11 billion in 2011.
A year later, HP discovered a mass...
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