Six people are missing, including a man dubbed the British Bill Gates, after a luxury yacht sank off the Sicilian coast.
British tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch — freshly acquitted from a decade-long trial — had invited his work colleagues aboard a trip through the Mediterranean coast when a freak storm saw the yacht sink within moments.What happened?
"The wind was very strong. Bad weather was expected, but not of this magnitude," a coastguard official told Reuters. He steadfastly denied any wrongdoing, asserting that he was being made a scapegoat for HP's own bungling.Following the San Francisco trial, Mr Lynch said he would return to the UK and do what he loved most: " my family and innovating in my field."Mr Chamberlain — Autonomy's former vice-president of finance alongside Mr Lynch — was hit by a car in Cambridgeshire on Saturday morning and had been placed on life support.
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