Two bodies found in the wreckage of the sunken Bayesian yacht have been confirmed as those of Mike Lynch and his daughter Hannah.
Mike Lynch, 59, was travelling with his wife and 18-year-old daughter on the superyacht which was battered during intense storms off the coast of Palermo, Italy in the early hours of Monday.
Mr Lynch’s wife, Angela Bacares, survived.
The trip appeared to be something of a celebration after Mr Lynch’s acquittal of fraud and conspiracy charges in a US federal trial related to Hewlett Packard’s $11 billion takeover of his company, Autonomy Corp.
Some guests included some of the people who had stood by Mr Lynch throughout the ordeal, including one of his US lawyers, Christopher Morvillo of Clifford Chance, and Mr Morvillo’s wife.
