The teenage daughter of British tech mogul Mike Lynch She is remembered as an intelligent student by her Oxford classmates, several of whom referred to her as a “special friend” when news broke that her body had been recovered from the sunken superyacht at a depth of 50 metres.
Hannah Lynch, The 18-year-old was the last person still missing after the luxury yacht sank off the coast of Sicily in a freak sea storm on Monday. The British Bill Gates and his teenage daughter were among seven people who died when the Bayesian superyacht sank in just a few minutes.
Her body was pulled by divers from the sunken hull on Friday, a day after her father’s remains were recovered. Friends of the student have mourned the loss of Hannah, a “warm and beautiful soul” and described her loss as “unbearable” in statements to the press. Hannah was “sincere, dedicated, very intelligent and genuinely kind. I will always remember her smiling,” said Gracie Lea, one of her classmates at the prestigious London secondary school Latymer Upper School. Jon Mitropoulos-Monk, one of the teenager’s teachers, said the youngster “combined a very high intellectual capacity with warmth and enthusiasm”.
After passing her national exams, Hannah set about studying English at Oxford University, “a goal I had worked very hard for,” the devastated teacher said. “I taught Hannah for four years. I will remember her for what she taught me – kindness, compassion and commitment,” she added. Friends, teachers and family of the teenager lamented how the recent high school graduate had been “brought to the precipice of her life”. “Hannah lived, loved, thought and felt more than anyone else I have ever known. Growing up with her and being best friends has been the greatest privilege of my life,” said her friend Angelica Read. “Hannah was lovely and very intelligent, she had an unquenchable thirst for life and knowledge. She was also warm, caring and deeply considerate – remarkable for her age,” added Patrick Jacob, a friend of the Lynch family. Sushovan Hussain, a close friend of Hannah’s father, also paid tribute. “We’ve known Hannah since she was born, and to have her brought to the brink of death is incredibly cruel,” she told the outlet.
The family of the missing tycoon issued their first statement since the shocking sinking on Friday: “The Lynch family is devastated, in shock and is being comforted and supported by family and friends,” a spokesman said. “Their thoughts are with all those affected by the tragedy. They would like to sincerely thank the Italian coast guard, the emergency services and all those who helped with the rescue.”
“Indescribable and irrational errors”
The yacht’s manufacturer blames the crew for “unspeakable and irrational errors” in the sinking of the boat and investigations have been opened into the possibility that we could speak of several cases of involuntary manslaughter. The aim is to determine whether human error could have caused the sinking of the yacht.
In addition to the bodies of Mike and Hannah Lynch, divers also recovered the remains of New York attorney Christopher Morvillo and his wife, Neda, as well as Morgan Stanley executive Jonathan Bloomer and his wife, Judy. Search crews discovered the body of the ship’s chef, Ricardo Thomas, shortly after the Bayesian sank at dawn on Monday. The trip was to celebrate Mike Lynch’s acquittal in the United States on fraud charges related to the 2011 sale of his software company, Autonomy. Morvillo represented Lynch in the case, which was tried in San Francisco in June. Lynch’s wife and Hannah’s mother, Angela Bacares, is one of 15 passengers and crew who managed to escape the ship before it was too late.
Giovanni Constantino, the CEO of the shipping company that built the Bayesian, the super sailboat of British magnate Mike Lynch sunkenhas stated that the crew of the boat had time to save the passengers. “It was impossible for it to sink,” he laments in an interview, and questions who say it sank in a minute. He argues that, according to the automatic identification system, they passed sixteen minutes from the start of the storm that caused the downpour until it sank. And he says that the tragedy was the result of a fatal sequence of errors. Let’s take it step by step.
Why was the sailboat anchored eight hundred meters from the coast and not in the port like the rest?
“That night, no fisherman went out to fish because everyone knew the storm was coming, and if a fisherman knew, how come the captain of the sailboat didn’t know, being the captain of that luxury sailboat with such exclusive passengers?” he laments, holding the nautical chart in his hand. In the event of a storm, protocol specifies that the crew must take all passengers to the saloon. No one can remain in the cabins or on the deck. And all doors and hatches must be closed. Apparently they were open when the storm hit, perhaps because of the heat, and they kept them open. The twelve passengers were sleeping in their cabins at four in the morning and no one told them.Angela Bacares, Mike Lynch’s wife, said she was awakened by the storm and the boat’s tilt and went outside to see what was happening, but her husband stayed in their cabin. Her husband and their 18-year-old daughter, Hannah, in the next cabin, were trapped when the boat capsized, sitting at ninety degrees for several minutes.
Constantino points out that the captain should have raised the anchor and started the engine to control the yacht, the same as the captain of the Sir Robert, a similar sailboat that was also caught in the storm and who was the one who saved the crew and passengers tossed by the sea in an inflatable boat, among whom was Angela Bacares, who was rescued alive. Italian authorities have launched a criminal investigation in which criminal charges are not ruled out.
Lynch and his influential friends were celebrating on the yacht that he and his partner, Stephen Chamberlain, They had been acquitted of fraud in a legal battle that had dragged on for twelve years.As we reported earlier, Chamberlain was killed in a car accident near Cambridge at the weekend. Lych’s personal lawyer, Chris Morvillo, and his wife Neda are also among the victims. British police have claimed it was an accident, but some see conspiracy theories.
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